From their first arrival in England in 1224, the Franciscans were concerned with the treatment of ill-health for both practical and spiritual reasons. Many brothers fell sick, and their illnesses required both interpretation and treatment. Some friars practised healing on their brethren and on lay patients. This article will focus on the question of the relationship between the religious vocation of the friars and the exigencies of sickness. Little evidence survives in England in the form of administrative records. But two early Franciscan writings (Tractatus de adventu fratrum minorum in Angliam, and the letters of Adam Marsh OFM, d. 1259) throw significant light on attitudes to illness and practical responses.

从 1224 年他们第一次抵达英格兰开始，方济各会出于实际和精神原因就开始关注疾病的治疗。许多弟兄生病了，他们的病需要解释和治疗。一些修士在他们的弟兄和平信徒身上练习医治。本文将重点讨论修士的宗教圣召与疾病的紧急情况之间的关系问题。在英格兰，几乎没有以行政记录形式存在的证据。但是，两份早期的方济会著作（Angliam 的 Tractatus de adventu fratrum minorum和 Adam Marsh OFM，d. 1259的信件）对疾病的态度和实际反应提供了重要的启示。