Congregation, as a result of which the said Innocent, our predecessor, issued on November 24, 1699, an apostolic document, by which he instructed the then Apostolic Nuncio in the Kingdom of Poland, Francis Pignatelli, to accept upon a mature examination of everything, the solemn profession of the above Founder, then acting only as a proxy, and of all his confreres; since in fact they all made their religious profession before the above Apostolic Nuncio and the same Nuncio approved the Order or the Congregation by the power of Apostolic Authority, as it can be read in more detail in the aforementioned apostolic document of June 6, 1701. Therefore, as it was mentioned in the petition, the said Norbert, Prosecutor General, interceded before us, asking to separate and detach the aforementioned Order or the Congregation from the Order of the Friars Minor of St. Francis of the Strict Observance, to which—as he asserted— his Order was joined and affiliated; this he obtained from us also through mediation of the assembly of our venerable brethren, the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, as shown in the decree of that Congregation of March 10, 1786. Not only did they request from this Congregation the approval of their Institute, but also of their newly reformed Constitutions with the following content. Here was included the text of the Constitutions. After a thorough and mature examination of the case, the Congregation of these Cardinals issued the following decree, which states: The Sacred Congregation of their Eminences, the Most Reverend Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church for Bishops and Religious decided to answer in response to the presentation of His Eminence Cardinal De Zelada Ponente in consideration of the reform of the Constitutions carried out according to the recommendations of the Most Revered Bishop Inspectors in accordance with the rescript of August Decrees of the Holy See Regarding the Congregation 45
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