welcomed by the Friars Minor, who had been granted complete authority over the tertiaries that same year. The Minister General of the friars, Guglielmo da Casala, demanded that the Third Order Sisters of the congregation be confirmed under obedience to him. Angelina had to submit and, in a public ceremony held in the friars' church in Foligno on 5 November 1430, vowed obedience to the local Minister Provincial. This act of obedience, however, was repudiated by the chapter of the community at Santa Anna, saying that it was invalid due to having been forced under duress and without their approval. The Holy See confirmed their autonomy the following year. To avoid the potential for future repetition of this conflict, the congregation put themselves under the obedience of their local bishops, with their spiritual direction to come from the friars of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance. Legacy and veneration Angeline died on July 14, 1435 Blessed Angelina was interred in the Church of St. Francis in Foligno upon her death. Her remains were removed to a grander shrine in 1492. Her cultus was approved in 1825. Due to the requirement of keeping their communities small and simple, Angelina's congregation gained greatest popularity in the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1428, they had been put briefly by Pope Martin V under the jurisdiction of the Friars Minor, with a specific mandate for the education and instruction of young girls. Even so, their work was fairly apostolic until they were required to become an enclosed religious order in 1617, having taken solemn vows with a strict separation from the affairs of the external world, limited to the education of girls within the cloister. With a 1903 lift of papal enclosure, a wider apostolate was again permitted, and the congregation became known as the Franciscan Sisters of Blessed Angelina. As of 1750, they consisted of 11 houses and 80 members. As of the year A.D. 2000, they have houses in Brazil, Madagascar and Switzerland, as well as in Italy. See also Third Order of St. Francis Counts of Marsciano References 1357 births 1435 deaths People from the Province of Terni Italian beatified people 15th-century Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns Third Order Regular Franciscans 15th-century venerated Christians 14th-century venerated Christians Franciscan beatified people Founders of Catholic religious communities Burials in Umbria 14th-century Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns