 Lanfranc Septala of Milan, Prior of the Bonites, was appointed the first Prior General of the newly constituted Order.The belted, black tunic of the Tuscan hermits was adopted as the common religious habit, and the walking sticks carried by the Bonites in keeping with eremetical tradition—and to distinguish themselves from those hermits who went around begging—ceased to be used.On 9 April 1256 Pope Alexander IV issued the bull "Licet Ecclesiae catholicae" (Bullarium Taurinense, 3rd ed., 635 sq.)