3155

RRR: 
3155
YEAR: 
1256
text: 
May 5. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the master and brothers of the hospital of Blessed Martin the Confessor in Acre (Acon), relating that the archbishop of Tyre (Tyrensis), as he has learned, ordered to be constructed with his own goods their hospital for receiving and maintaining poor Bretons from the province of Tours (Turonensis) crossing the sea in support of the Holy Land. Responding to his and the addressees' requests, the pope grants that they can freely and perpetually wear on their clothing as their habit the image of Blessed Martin the Confessor sharing his pallium (cloak) with a pauper, any prohibition notwithstanding.
Sources: 
Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 1:393, no. 1315; Delaville Le Roulx, L’hôpital des Bretons à Saint-Jean d’Acre au treizième siècle, 1, pp. 8-19, no. III; RRH 1216

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