On the other hand, Livarus Oliger, also writing in the Catholic Encyclopedia, states that Buil was a Minim, citing research of Fita for the view that the bull of Alexander had a clerical error in the phrase ordinis Minorum which would indicate that Buil was a Franciscan.
The ambassador notes that on the damaged ship was ‘another Friar Buil’ - this being an allusion to Bernardo Buil, the Minim missionary who had accompanied Christopher Columbus's 1493 expedition.
Jean François Niceron (1613–1646), French mathematician, Minim friar, and anamorphic artist