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520 BENEDICTVADAKKEKARA tical and religious superiors and should have a markedly uniform Franciscan-Capu– chin identity also in the externals 44 • The statutes are divided into nine briefchapters and carry a 4-page appendix of Preces vespertinae. While the first chapter spells out the Normaegenerales, the second chapter is devoted to the subject De Collegii regimine. The college is under the joint direction of the general Minister and the general Definitory, who appoint a rector, a vice rector, a prefect of studies, a spiritual director, an oeconomus and the lectors 45 • The college is primarily meant for those young friars with a missionary aptitude. It was, moreover, specified that one of the requirements to be a missionary is to have spent a minimum of one year in the college. However, the college is also open to other well-disposed friars in the provinces 46 • On 25 October 1911 the pope wrote to the general Minister highly commending the statutes of the college 47 • 44 AGC, FG, Statuta, Ordinationes Collegii, Sectio 5, Pacificus a Sejano, Adhortatio ad su– periores et alumnos Collegii, 3, in Statuta peculiaria pro Collegio Seraphico S. Laurentii Brundusini de Urbe, Romae 1911: "Ut Collegii nostri Seraphici materiali constructioni concinne respondeat aedificatio sive intellectualis, sive moralis et disciplinaris franciscano-capuccina, necesse est ut in omnibus et singulis, regnante tamquam regina Christi charitate, risplendeant atque refulgeant obedientia Pontifici, Ecclesiae, Ministro Generali Ordinis aliisque Superioribus, perfecta etiam in minimis Constitutionum observamia, maxima mentium et actionum unitas, mutua dilectio, franciscana fraternitas, externa quoque uniformitas in habitu, in tonsura, in aliisque rebus': 45 AGC, FG, Statuta, Ordinationes Collegii, Sectio 5: Statutapeculiariapro Collegio Seraphico S. Laurentii Brundusini de Urbe, No. 10-16. 46 AGC, FG, Statuta, Ordinationes Collegii, Sectio 5: Statuta peculiaria pro Collegio Seraphi– co S. Laurentii Brundusini de Urbe, No 17-22: "Admittentur in primis in Collegio illi juvenes, qui certa vocationis signa pro Missionibus prae se ferunt. Imo quoad fieri potest nemo ad missiones mittendus erit, nisi saltem per annum in Collegio studiis operam dederit et vocationem proba– verit''. 47 AGC, FGl, Pope Pius X to Fr Pacificus ofSeggiano, St Peter's 25 October 1911: "Quod accepimus propediem fore, ut urbanum Laurentii Brundusini Collegium dedicetur, vehementer Nobis gratum accidit: laudamusque providentiam curamque tuam, dilecte Fili, qui alumnis opti– mae spei ex omni religiosa familia, quam moderatis, ad exquisitiorem disciplinam erudiendis hanc domum aperueris. Velie sacram juvemutem doctrinae laude florere, saluberrimum sane consilium est, planeque his temporibus congruens. Nam hodie maxime, cum, ob eruditionem late propa– gatam, virtus ipsa quae non sit satis polita studiis, contemnitur, si quidem Clerus adulescens ad divinum exercendum ministerium, bene a doctrina instructus, accesserit, non modo dignitatem sacerdotii tuebitur aptius, sed, quod majus est, in sacris ipsis muneribus molto versabitur utilius. Atque hoe de Clericis Ordinum religiosorum etiam, non de iis dumtaxat, qui in medio aestu sae– culi vivant, est dicendum. Est igitur, cur tibi, dilecte Fili, gratulemur ob institutum hujusmodi, quod et Fratrum Capulatorum familiae, et populo cristiano valde potest evenire frugiferum. Eve– niet autem sine dubitatione ulla, si hac lege sanctae dirigatur, ut propria Franciscanae disciplinae