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unusual facts about Order of Friars Minor



Albert of Stade

Friar Albert of Stade, O.F.M., was a 13th-century chronicler, born before the end of the 12th century, most likely about 1187.

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.

Conrad of Offida

When barely fourteen years old he entered the Order of Friars Minor at Ascoli, and was making rapid progress in the study of sacred sciences, when an internal voice called him to humbler offices of the religious life.


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Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan

The abbey is made up of members of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, though it is also used by the Capuchin, Third order, Society of Saint Francis, the Clarisse, and Franciscan sisters.

Cardinals created by Urban V

Marco da Viterbo, O.F.M., master general of the Order of Friars Minor – cardinal-priest of Santa Prassede (received the title on 14 December 1367), † 4 September 1369.

Jenico Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston

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

Juan Landázuri Ricketts

After finishing his theological studies in 1949, he was briefly a faculty member of the Franciscan Theological Seminary in Puerto Ocopa, but his status within the wider Church was increasing rapidly and he became the general definitor of the Order of Friars Minor by 1951.