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Founded as a brotherhood, whence the name Friars Minor (Minorities, Gray Friars, also Cordeliers), the Franciscans won cautious support from Innocent but did not win formal ratification as a corporation until 1223.
1159-81 2001
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Etymologically the name Friars Minor (Fratres Minores) is equivalent to the diminutive
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Boreels of Tasman), which he called the Friars, and discovered Adventure
The History of Tasmania, Volume I John West 1840
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It seems the parish of Kilcormac was attended to by Friars from the Carmelite monastery at Loughrea.) posted by John at 4: 28 PM
The Kilcormac Pietá John 2009
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It seems the parish of Kilcormac was attended to by Friars from the Carmelite monastery at Loughrea.) posted by John at 4: 28 PM
St Berthold's Feast Day. . . . John 2009
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By the time he was 28, he had founded a simple Rule for an Order called the Friars Minor.
Rev. Dr. James A. Kowalski: St. Francis: The Power of Loving All Creation Rev. Dr. James A. Kowalski 2010
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But meanwhile, let us not forget that the coming of the Friars was a moral protest too; and in that moral protest the sons of St. Dominic from the first took, and were meant to take, their full part; Cherubim and Seraphim must hymn together the dazzling holiness of God.
Liturgy 2009
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But meanwhile, let us not forget that the coming of the Friars was a moral protest too; and in that moral protest the sons of St. Dominic from the first took, and were meant to take, their full part; Cherubim and Seraphim must hymn together the dazzling holiness of God.
Protestantism 2009
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By the time he was 28, he had founded a simple Rule for an Order called the Friars Minor.
Rev. Dr. James A. Kowalski: St. Francis: The Power of Loving All Creation Rev. Dr. James A. Kowalski 2010
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By the time he was 28, he had founded a simple Rule for an Order called the Friars Minor.
Rev. Dr. James A. Kowalski: St. Francis: The Power of Loving All Creation Rev. Dr. James A. Kowalski 2010
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