SUMMARY — This study intends to formulate some philosophical-theological reflections and to draw certain conclusions of a spiritual nature from the teaching and the «praxis» of Saint Francis regarding the topic of «corporeity», and also from the concepts, which, under this aspect, have been expressed by two eminent Franciscan scholars: Saint Bonaventure and John Duns Scotus. To understand fully the franciscan teaching on corporeity the study starts with a delineation of the historical-doctrinal assumptions to which such teaching refers, and concludes with elements of evaluation and synthesis.