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The Franciscans were called mendicants because they practiced a lifestyle of poverty and relied on begging (or "mendicancy") for their sustenance. This emphasis on poverty and itinerant lifestyle was a key aspect of their religious order founded by St. Francis of Assisi in the 13th century.

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