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50 unusual facts about Franciscan


Al-Qunaya

Missionaries of the Franciscan Fathers (the Holy Land Rangers) (From Latin Catholic) came to the village in 1878 and built a church, Monastery, clinic and the first Arabic school in northwestern Syria, they re-built the church in 1885 and the current church dates to 1932.

Annals of Nenagh

The Annals of Nenagh are a set of Irish annals composed in Latin at the Franciscan convent of Nenagh, County Tipperary, founded c.

Badi III

Although King Badi was seen by many as being responsible for this act, the Scots traveller James Bruce, who travelled through Sennar later in the eighteenth century, accused the Franciscans of having manipulated the events that led to these deaths.

Bernardine Monastery, Iziaslav

In 1910 died the last monk of Bernard Order in Iziaslav; it was only in 1914 when bernardines managed to come back to their abode.

Big Bend National Park

Others, such as those by the Franciscan missionaries, were intended to establish centers in which the natives could be evangelized.

Blidinje

There is also a Franciscan monastery that is located within the park and open to visitors.

Cardiff town walls

It may have been that the town was completely burnt down except for the Grey Friary outside the East Gate.

Catharine Young

A Livingston County native, Catherine Young grew up on a third-generation dairy and crops farm, and attended State University of New York at Fredonia, where she met her future husband, Richard and, following a transfer, graduated magna cum laude, with a bachelor’s degree in mass communication, from St. Bonaventure University, a private, Franciscan Catholic institution, near Cattaraugus County's largest city, Olean.

Charles W. Fisher

By way of fulfilling that promise, he built a mansion in Cochrane in 1908 (which became the Just Home Guest Ranch in 1931 and was donated to a Franciscan order in 1948).

Chinigchinix

This character was first mentioned in a description of the beliefs of the native peoples who were associated with the Mission San Juan Capistrano in accounts written by the Franciscan missionary Jerónimo Boscana in the 1820s.

Cholones

They were first met by the Franciscans, who established mission villages among them in 1676.

Christian Gostečnik

Christian Gostečnik, OFM (born 1 May 1955, Šmihel nad Mozirjem, Slovenia) is a Slovenian Roman Catholic priest of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, theologian, clinical psychologist and marriage-and-family therapist.

Donnelly Rhodes

In 1980, Donnelly played a Franciscan priest in the concluding episode, "The Siren Song", of the CBS western miniseries The Chisholms.

For Love of Evil

Soon after joining the Franciscan monks, Parry discovers that a new order, the Dominicans, are being formed with the express purpose of rooting out evil and heresy.

Frank Bonilla

Bonilla spent his first years of high school attending a Franciscan high school in Illinois, where he showed academic and leadership skills.

Greyfriars Abbey, Ystad

From the outset, it belonged to the Franciscan order, who were popularly known as grey friars (hence the name of the monastery), and functioned as a friary for friars.

Greyfriars Church

Many churches have been named after the Grey Friars (Franciscans), and often they originated as Franciscan monasteries.

Isidro de Espinosa

Isidro de Espinosa (1679–1755) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary who participated in some expeditionary missions in

Iyasu II

During Iyasu II's reign, a Czech Franciscan Remedius Prutky visited his kingdom, and engaged Iyasu in talks about religion and European politics.

Jenico Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston

The castle is fully maintained by the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor (OFM), who bought it circa 1950.

Joseph de La Roche Daillon

Joseph de La Roche Daillon (d. 1656, Paris) was a French Catholic missionary to the Huron Indians and a Franciscan Récollet priest.

Katharineum

The school uses the buildings of a former Franciscan monastery next to Saint Catherine Church, which was extended in the 1880s.

Leineschloss

The first building on the site was a Franciscan friary, constructed in about 1300, which was abandoned in 1533 after the Protestant Reformation.

Luis de Aliaga Martínez

Lerma soon had Aliaga appointed confessor to the king (a position that had been previously been held by Diego Mardones, a member of the Franciscan Order, who became Bishop of Córdoba).

Łąki Bratiańskie

According to the Polish version of this Wikipedia page, a Reformed Franciscan monastery existed in Łąki Bratiańskie from 1631 to 1882.

Marischal College

The College was constructed on the site of a medieval Franciscan Friary, disused after the Reformation.

Matija Ban

After graduating from a lycee in Dubrovnik, he was supposed to join the Franciscan order, but suddenly changed his plans.

Monastery of St Saviour

The Monastery of St Saviour (locally also known as San Salvador monastery) is a Franciscan monastery located east of Jerusalem's New Gate, inside the city wall, on 1 St. Francis Street.

Monastery of St. John in the Wilderness

Monastery of St. John in the Wilderness is a Franciscan monastery built next to a spring on a wooded slope just north of Even Sapir and south of Jerusalem, Israel.

Muiris mac Donnchadh Ulltach Ó Duinnshléibhe

In the 1630s both he and Muiris mac Seaán Ulltach Ó Duinnshléibhe were attached to the Franciscan convent at Bundrowes, and became acquainted with Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, who was then compiling the Annals of the Four Masters.

Old Rauma

Other sights include the rare stone buildings of the Old Rauma: the Church of the Holy Cross, an old Franciscan monastery church from the 15th century with medieval paintings and the Old Town Hall from 1776.

Olive wood carving in Palestine

The art developed and became a major industry in Bethlehem and nearby towns like Beit Sahour and Beit Jala in the 16th and 17th centuries when Italian and Franciscan artisans on pilgrimage to the area — by now under the rule of the Ottomans — taught the residents how to carve.

Pál Bajai

Pál Bajai, O.F.M., was a Hungarian Franciscan friar of the Observant reform and spiritual writer during the 18th century.

Paraguayan harp

The Spanish Franciscan friars who established missions in Paraguay were less successful in subjugating the Tupi Guarani Indians to forced labor source so that the Guarani they became a more powerful culture in Paraguay, and Guaraní became the country's official second language, making Paraguay the only nation in the Americas with an indigenous official national language.

Paul Sabatier

This book gave a great stimulus to the study of medieval literary and religious documents, especially of such as are connected with the history of the Franciscan Order.

Place Guillaume II

It is colloquially known as Knuedler, from the Luxembourgish language's word for 'knot', referring to the knot in the belt worn by Franciscan friars.

Rauma, Finland

In the 14th century, before being declared as a town, Rauma had a Franciscan monastery and a Catholic church.

River Eske

The mouth of the river is directly opposite a former Franciscan Abbey which was built by the O'Donnells but was destroyed by the English following the Flight of the Earls in 1607.

Robertson, New South Wales

The building sold again in 1947 and became, St Anthony's College, a Franciscan friary

Roman Catholic Church Group, Toodyay

In January 1999 Avondown became a Friary for the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate Marian Friary of Our Lady Help of Christians.

Russet

Humble squires and priests, such as Franciscans wore russet as a sign of humility but preferred a good quality russet such as that made in Colchester, which was better than the cheapest cloth.

Saint Anthony's Catholic High School

As a result of persistent request from parents of pupils in the local Franciscan Nursery and Primary School and from the general public, the Catholic diocese of Osogbo decided to establish a private Secondary School in Ilesa, Osun State.

Satyananda Stokes

He encouraged Samuel to form an order of Franciscan Friars, an order of monkhood committed to living in poverty and aiding the diseased and dying.

St. Francis Institute of Technology

The college is presently run by The Society of Franciscan brothers, with a special consideration to Roman Catholic students.

Suspicious Cheese Lords

From 1998 to 2005, the Cheese Lords served as artists in residence at Mount St. Sepulchre Franciscan Monastery, the Franciscan Monastery in Washington, D.C. The Cheese Lords assisted in developing "An Evening at the Tabard Inn", an event for the Smithsonian Institution's Resident Associates program, for which the group provided music contemporary to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and related to the theme of pilgrimage.

Tanaka Shōsuke

Also among them was Father Muños, a Franciscan Father, sent by Tokugawa Ieyasu as a representative to negotiate the establishment of trade between Japan and Nueva España.

The Ragamuffin Gospel

The Ragamuffin Gospel is a book about the essence of Christianity by former Franciscan priest Brennan Manning.

Villa San Michele Hotel

The original building was a monastery, founded in the early years of the 15th century for the Franciscan monks.

Wetlina

It was resettled during the 1950s and 1960s with forestry workers and Franciscan Friars.

World Trade Center cross

Brian Jordan OFM, a Roman Catholic Franciscan priest, spoke over it and declared it to be a "symbol of hope... a symbol of faith... a symbol of healing".


ACME and V.I.L.E.

Although the structure of ACME Headquarters varies, it is always located in San Francisco, often being depicted as well within view of San Franciscan landmarks such as the Transamerica Pyramid and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Bernardinai.lt

It was launched on February 21, 2004 and is run by Vilnius Franciscan community.

Bisignano

Luca Antonio Pirozzo, better known as St. Humilis of Bisignano (1582–1637), was a Franciscan monk born in Bisignano.

Celestin Tomić

He produced around fifty printed works, published mostly by the Croatian Province of Franciscan Conventuals, but also by some other publishers ("Kršćanska sadašnjost", "Glas Koncila"…).

Clementine Deymann

In 1885 and in 1891 Father Clementine was elected definitor of the Franciscan province of the Sacred Heart; in 1886 he was made superior of the boys' orphanage at Watsonville, California.

Eimhin

Whitley Stokes in R.S.), originally published by the Franciscan John Colgan.

Fláithrí Ó Maol Chonaire

But O'Donnell died at Simancus, being assisted on his death-bed by Ó Maolconaire (Four Masters, ad an. 1602) who also accompanied the remains to their last resting place in the Franciscan church at Valladolid.

Franciscan Center of Baltimore

The Franciscan Center of Baltimore, founded by the Franciscan Sisters of Baltimore in 1968, is an emergency outreach agency located in the Baltimore neighborhood of Lower Charles Village, at 101 W. 23rd Street.

Franciscan Province of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

As part of re-establishing normal church structures, the bishops worked to transfer parishes from the Franciscans to the diocesan clergy, but friars resisted, and in the 1940s, the two Franciscan provinces still held 63 of 79 parishes in the dioceses of Vrhbosna and Mostar.

Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist

The Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist, at one time, owned and operated a ferry and store on Shaw Island part of the San Juan Islands in the state of Washington.

Franciscan St Anthony Health – Michigan City

Franciscan St Anthony Health – Michigan City is a hospital located in Michigan City, Indiana.

Gregory Grassi

On July 4, a mob attacked the Franciscan mission in Hengyang (southern Hunan), murdering one of the friars, Cesidio Giacomantonio, and burning the mission to the ground.

Heggbach Abbey

In 1875 the property was bought by Prince Franz von Waldburg zu Wolfegg und Waldsee who left the buildings to Franciscan sisters from the convent in Reute in 1884.

Henry Crocker

Henry J. Crocker (1861–1912), San Franciscan businessman and philatelist

Herincx

Guillaume Herincx (1621–1678), Belgian Franciscan theologian and bishop of Ypres

Jan Romuald Byzewski

After his ordination, Reverend Byzewski became professor of philosophy and theology at the Franciscan seminary in Łąki Bratiańskie, Poland.

Jean Mohamed Ben Abdejlil

Born into a family of Muslim notables of Fez, Mohamed Ben Abdejlil, who had made the Hajj to Mecca with his father, converted to Catholicism and was baptized in April 7, 1928 in the chapel of Franciscan college of Fontenay-sous-bois, taking the Christian name Jean, with sponsor of French orientalist Louis Massignon.

José Arlegui

José Arlegui (c. 1686-1750) was a Spanish Franciscan theologian of the 18th century, from Biscay, who wrote on theological subjects, some of them related to the ethnology of Mexico.

Joseph McCabe

He returned to London and resumed priestly and educational duties, until in October 1895 when he was put in charge of the newly founded Franciscan college in Buckingham, (which is now St Bernardine's Catholic Church, Buckingham).

Juan de Anchieta

He held various church benefices, from 1518 as Abbot of Arbós, town located at the province of Tarragona, as a chaplain at Granada Cathedral, spending his final years in a Franciscan convent he had founded in Azpeitia.

Katarínka

Katarínka (German St. Katharein) are the ruins of a Franciscan monastery and church dating back to the early 17th century, located deep in the forests of the Little Carpathian Mountains (Malé Karpaty) in western Slovakia, 20 km north of Trnava over Dubovský creek, close to the villages of Dechtice, Naháč and Dobrá Voda.

Konrad Pellikan

On returning to Rouffach, he taught gratis in the Franciscan convent school that he might borrow books from the library, and in his sixteenth year resolved to become a friar.

La Cruz del Viajero

La Cruz del Viajero (The Cross of the Traveller) is a monument placed by Franciscan monks in 1672 in the small town of Magdalena Vieja (now Pueblo Libre), just outside Lima, the capital city of Peru, and the old centre of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.

Marco Polo – The Journey

It is one of the Renaissance's more eclectic works, covering not only the instrumental istanpittas of the Italian Trecento and earlier Franciscan laudas, but also Byzantine chant, girl songs from Cyprus preserved in the Manuscript 1203 kept in Iviron monastery, Persian and Arabic dances, traditional Music of Mongolia and Ancient Chinese ceremonial music.

Mary Alfred Moes

During the summer of 1865, the Guardian of the Franciscan friars in the United States, Father Pamfilo da Magliano, O.S.F., summoned Sister Alfred to St. Bonaventure Friary, in Allegany County, New York, along with the first postulant to the community, Mary Ann Rosenberger.

Milinović

Šimun Milinović (1835–1910), Croatian Roman Catholic priest, Franciscan, Serbian Primate and Archbishop

Newark Friary

The friary was founded around 1499 by King Henry Tudor (VII), who had become the patron of the reformed branch of the Franciscan order, known as the "Friars Observant".

Nicholas of Lynn

The identification of Nicholas as the Franciscan (Minorite) friar who wrote a text called the Inventio Fortunata, allegedly describing a voyage to Greenland and beyond, was first proposed by Richard Hakluyt, the late 16th-century historian of exploration, based on information from scientist John Dee.

Olivares

Antonio de Olivares, Spanish Franciscan (1630 - 1722) known by officiate at the first Mass celebrated in Texas, for contributing to the founding of San Antonio and for his exploration in this city.

Petar Brzica

Before the war he was a scholarship student at the Franciscan college of Široki Brijeg in Herzegovina and a member of The Great Brotherhood of Crusaders.

Studium Biblicum Version

The Studium Biblicum Version was translated by the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Hong Kong (a bible society not affiliated with the United Bible Societies), also known as the Studium Biblicum O.F.M. Translation originally started in 1935 as a personal effort by a Franciscan Friar, the Blessed Gabriele Allegra, but translation work was halted due to World War II, and part of the finished translations were lost due to the war.

Umbria

The region is characterized by sweet and green hills and historical towns such as Assisi (a World Heritage Site associated with St. Francis of Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and other Franciscan sites, with works by Giotto and Cimabue), Norcia (the hometown of St. Benedict), Gubbio, Spoleto, Todi, Città di Castello, Orvieto, Cascata delle Marmore, Castiglione del Lago, Passignano sul Trasimeno and other charming towns and small cities.

Valle Romita Polyptych

It was originally executed for the Franciscan hermitage of Valle Romita near Gentile's birthplace, Fabriano.

Wilfrid Napier

Wilfrid Fox Napier OFM (born 8 March 1941) is a South African cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Durban, South Africa.

William of Alnwick

William of Alnwick (c. 1275 – March 1333) was a Franciscan friar and theologian, and bishop of Giovinazzo, who took his name from Alnwick in Northumberland.

Yohannes I

Six Franciscans sent by Pope Alexander VII to succeed in converting Ethiopia to Catholicism where the Jesuits had failed 30 years before, were executed during his reign.