OLIVE (Peter John), was born in France, and died in 1297, in the fiftieth year of his age. In his youth he wrote a book in praise of the Virgin Mary, which was condemned during the pontificate of Nicholas III. as containing some things too extravagant. He afterwards was frequently accused by the brothers of his order, whose resentment he had drawn upon himself by his severe reproofs of their luxury, and his endeavours to recall them to the poverty and rigour of their first institution. After his death his body was dug up, he was condemned as a heretic, and his writings were burnt, and remained prohibited till the time of Sixtus IV. who having ordered them to be examined, declared they contained nothing expressly contrary to the Catholic faith. The propositions condemned by John are mentioned by Emmericus, in his Directory of the Inquisition, under twenty-two heads. The chief of them are, "That the Pope was the mystical antichrist; that St. Francis was the angel in the Revelations said to have the mark of the living God, and that his rule was the true gospel; that the perfect state of the church began with St. Francis; and that Christ and his apostles had no property either in common or in particular, but only the usufruct of what they enjoyed."