in 1220, francis resigned the office of general of the order, which he entrusted first to peter of cattaneo. upon peter's early death on 10 march, 1221, he appointed elias of cortona but retained a certain supreme direction of the order until his death on 3 october 1226. elias of cortona, as the vicar general of francis, summoned the regular pentecost chapter for the following year, and on 29 may 1227, parenti, was chosen as first successor of st. francis and first minister-general. he has often been regarded as a native of florence, but probably came from the neighborhood of rome.