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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

  • 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

  • Boreels of Tasman), which he called the Friars, and discovered Adventure

    The History of Tasmania, Volume I John West 1840

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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