ABSTRACT
The Languedoc fostered a distinctive movement within the first and third orders of the Friars Minor, who broke away from the mainstream Franciscan community not only over the poverty controversy, but also through their cult of the apocalyptic and other writings of Petrus Johannis Olivi. Inquisition and other historiographical records are the main sources for the ideas of the adherents of the Languedoc's Spiritual Franciscans and Beguins between the papal bull Exiit qui seminat of 1279, and their virtual disappearance in the mid-fourteenth century. A lay citizen of Narbonne with the similar name Raimundus Corneti was active in 131314, implying that there was a family connection with the Languedoc-Roussillon. The Languedocian convents promoted a cult around the writings and the tomb of Petrus Johannis Olivi in the Franciscan church of Narbonne. Olivi's writings on the Apocalypse were formally condemned in 1326, although their prophetic interpretation by Franciscans had been persecuted for over a decade.
