Who are the Franciscans of the Immaculate? Friars and Sisters clad with seraphic poverty, penitent and joyful, humble and ardent, not without their weaknesses. Friars in contemplation and in action, in huts and in classrooms, in hermitages, and in radio and television studios, on God-forsaken islands and in the most populous cities; friars who everywhere diffuse the “perfume of Christ” (2 Cor. 2:15), who radiate’the pure and sweet goodness of the Immaculate, who let men see a bit of Heaven here on earth.