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9 unusual facts about Order of Friars Minor Capuchin


Alexander Maximilian Seitz

The St. Anthony, and St. Benedict, as engraved by the Capuchin Bernardo da Monaco, and his Mater Amabilis aroused admiration; an enthroned Madonna went to England.

Álvaro VII of Kongo

The new king sent a trusted Capuchin monk, Friar Girolamo of Montesarchio, to make peace with the Portuguese in to Luanda, Angola, in Christmas 1665.

Garcia II of Kongo

Capuchin missionaries, who arrived from Italy and Spain in 1645 assisted in providing more clergy for the Church, and Garcia welcomed them to his country.

Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi

The original building, which unfortunately exists no more, dates back to before World War I and was built by the Franciscan Capuchin Order.

Kingdom of Matamba

This strategy was successful, she signed a peace treaty in 1657 and Italian Capuchin missionaries began working in her lands.

Paraguayan harp

In Brazil and Uruguay Portuguese Capuchin missions produced harps, guitars, and violins, based on 16th- and 17th-century Portuguese and Spanish models, for import to European royal courts.

Patri Fidiel

Patri Fidiel (1762–1824) was a Capuchin, author of poems about religious aspects and with a popular traditional versification.

Serpelice

The village has a wooden church, built in 1947, by the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, who also have a monastery in the village.

William Fey

He made his first profession as a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin on July 14, 1963, and final profession on July 14, 1966.


Aachen Cathedral Treasury

In August of that year the treasure was taken to the Collegium Liborianum, the Capuchin Monetary in Paderborn, where the three items of Imperial Regalia hitherto in the possession of the Cathedral college (the Carolingian Coronation Gospels, the Sabre of Charlemagne and St. Stephen's Purse were separated and taken to Vienna.

Albert Knoll

Albert Knoll (born at Bruneck in what was central Tyrol, 12 July 1796; died at Bolzano, 30 March 1863) was an Austrian Capuchin dogmatic theologian.

Allegra Byron

Stability and the affection of the nuns at the Capuchin convent in Bagnacavallo, where she spent the last year of her life, improved Allegra's self-control.

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.

Boverius

Giovanni Boveri (Boverius) (Saluzzo, 1568-Genoa, 1638) was an Italian jurist, who became a Capuchin Friar Minor, taking the name Zacharias.

Charles Joseph Tricassin

Charles Joseph Tricassin (Tricassinus) (b. at Troyes; d. in 1681) was a French Capuchin theologian.

Colegio San Conrado

The Colegio San Conrado, founded in 1948 by the Capuchin Franciscans and Sisters of St. Joseph from Brentwood, New York, is operated by the Catholic Church of the Diocese of Ponce.

Éminence grise

Leclerc was a Capuchin friar who was renowned for his beige robe attire (as beige was termed "grey" in that era.) The title "His Eminence" is used to address or refer to a Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church.

Hilarius of Sexten

Hilarius of Sexten (secular name Christian Gatterer) (born 1839, in the valley of Sexten in the county of Tyrol; died 20 October 1900) was an Austrian Capuchin moral theologian.

International Association of Exorcists

Although Father Amorth is the honorary president, following the death of Father Giancarlo Gramolazzo in November 2010, Capuchin father Cipriano de Meo has been named as new president.

Metropolis of Derkoi

The diocese included 41 villages in the vicinity of Constantinople and along the shores of the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara, among them San Stefano, Makriköy and Büyükdere, with Catholic parishes conducted by Capuchins, Dominicans and Minor Conventuals.

Missa sancti Bernardi von Offida

This Mass was written in honor of St. Bernard of Offida, a Capuchin monk who devoted himself to helping the poor; a century after the monk's death, he was beatified by Pope Pius VI.

Patrizius Wittman

Dr. Wittmann was also largely instrumental in the founding of a motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity and of a hospice and home for workmen under the direction of the Capuchins.

Pietro Riminucci

Pietro Riminucci, also known as Serafino of Pietrarubbia, (Pietrarubbia, Pesaro e Urbino, Italy, 25 April 1875 – Macerata, Italy, 17 March 1960) was a lay brother professed in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

Redemptoris Mater Chapel

The current Apostolic Preacher, Capuchin Friar Father Raniero Cantalamessa often presides over the homilies in the chapel and is occasionally used by Pope Benedict XVI.

Saint-Maurice, Switzerland

These communities included; in 1611 the Capuchins, in 1865 the Sisters of Saint-Maurice, in 1906 the Augustinian Sisters and in 1996 the Brotherhood of the Eucharist in Epinassey.

Scapular of St. Joseph

The Scapular of Saint Joseph is a Roman Catholic devotional scapular that traces its roots to the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in St. Claude in France and was initially in white.

Theodosius Florentini

Theodosius Florentini (born at Münster, in the Grisons, Switzerland, 23 May 1808; died at Heiden, in Appenzell, 15 February 1865) was a Swiss Capuchin monk, a founder of Catholic religious orders and institutions.

Vittoria Colonna

In 1537, we find her at Ferrara, where she made many friends and helped to establish a Capuchin monastery at the instance of the reforming monk Bernardino Ochino, who afterwards became a Protestant.


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