Franciscan

Member of a Christian religious order dedicated to the apostolic life of poverty and preaching founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. The Franciscans actually consist of three orders. The First Order comprises priests and lay brothers who have sworn to a life of prayer, preaching, and penance. The Second Order (founded 1212) consists of cloistered nuns known as the Poor Clares. The Third Order consists of religious members and laypersons who observe Franciscan principles in teaching, charity, and social service. The Rule of St. Francis stipulated that Franciscan friars could own no property of any kind, either individually or communally. The friars wandered and preached among the people, helping the poor and sick. Their impact was immense; within 10 years they numbered 5,000. A milder version of the rule was approved in 1223, and after the death of St. Francis in 1226 the order was divided by conflicts over the vow of poverty. A moderate interpretation of the rule was established while St. Bonaventure was minister general of the order (1257–74), and the friars spread throughout Europe, their missionaries penetrating as far as Syria and Africa. Though continuing controversy over the definition of poverty led to the intervention of the Pope John XXII, who persecuted the advocates of strict poverty, and to divisions of the order that lasted into the 19th century, the Franciscans flourished. They remain the largest Roman Catholic religious order.

Franciscan

a member of any of several Christian religious orders of mendicant friars or nuns tracing their origins back to Saint Francis of Assisi; a Grey Friar

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No references found	Vincy, the mayor, a florid man, who would have served for a study of flesh in striking contrast with the Franciscan tints of Mr. Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context As he passed the Rue de la Huchette, the odor of those admirable spits, which were incessantly turning, tickled his olfactory apparatus, and he bestowed a loving glance toward the Cyclopean roast, which one day drew from the Franciscan friar, Calatagirone, this pathetic exclamation: Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context The Dominican and Franciscan friars, also, who had come to England in the thirteenth century, soon after the foundation of their orders in Italy, and who had been full at first of passionate zeal for the spiritual and physical welfare of the poor, had now departed widely from their early character and become selfish, luxurious, ignorant, and unprincipled. A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context	Francis of Sales Francis of Sales, Saint Francis Otto Matthiessen Francis Parker Shepard Francis Perrin Francis Peyton Rous Francis Place Francis Poulenc Francis Scott Fitzgerald Francis turbine Francis Viele-Griffin Francis Vielé-Griffin Francis William Aston Francis Willughby Francis Xavier, Saint Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Francis, David Rowland Francis, Dick Francis, James Francis, James Bicheno Francis, Saint Francis, Sam Francis, Sir Philip Francis, St. Francisc Munteanu Franciscan Franciscans Francisci, Jan Francisco Amoros Francisco Amorós Francisco Antonio Encina Francisco Coloane Francisco de Almeida Francisco de Herrera Francisco de Orellana Francisco de Paula Santander Francisco De Vitoria Francisco de Zurbaran Francisco de Zurbarán Francisco del Rosario Sanchez Francisco del Rosario Sánchez Francisco Espoz y Mina Francisco Franco Francisco Indalecio Madero Francisco Javier de Isturiz Francisco Javier de Istúriz Francisco Larroyo Francisco Manoel do Nascimento Francisco Mendes Francisco Miranda Francisco Morazan	Francis Willughby Francis Xavier Francis Xavier Engineering College Francis Xavier, Saint Francis Y. Edgeworth Francis Younghusband Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Francis, Clare Mary Francis, David Rowland Francis, Dick Francis, Dick Francis, Dick Francis, James Francis, James Bicheno Francis, James Bicheno Francis, Philip Francis, Rule of Saint Francis, Rule of Saint Francis, Saint Francis, Saint Francis, Sam Francis, Sam Francis, Sir Philip Francis, St. Francis, Viscount Saint Alban , Baron of Verulam Bacon Francis, Viscount Saint Alban , Baron of Verulam Bacon Francis-Williams, Edward, Baron Francis-Williams Francisation Francisc Munteanu Franciscan Franciscan Brothers Franciscan Brothers of the Eucharist Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross Franciscan Brothers or Sisters Franciscan Clarist Congregation Franciscan College of Immaculate Conception Franciscan Colleges Instrumental Program Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land Franciscan friars Franciscan friars Franciscan Friars of Mary Immaculate Franciscan Friars of the Atonement Franciscan Friars of the Renewal Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, Fr. Groeschel Franciscan Guild Franciscan Handmaids of the Good Shepherd Franciscan Health System Franciscan Hospital for Children Franciscan International Study Centre Franciscan Missionaries of Mary Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System Franciscan Missionaries of Saint Clare Franciscan Missionaries of St. Joseph Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word

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Vincy, the mayor, a florid man, who would have served for a study of flesh in striking contrast with the Franciscan tints of Mr.

Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context

As he passed the Rue de la Huchette, the odor of those admirable spits, which were incessantly turning, tickled his olfactory apparatus, and he bestowed a loving glance toward the Cyclopean roast, which one day drew from the Franciscan friar, Calatagirone, this pathetic exclamation:

Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context

The Dominican and Franciscan friars, also, who had come to England in the thirteenth century, soon after the foundation of their orders in Italy, and who had been full at first of passionate zeal for the spiritual and physical welfare of the poor, had now departed widely from their early character and become selfish, luxurious, ignorant, and unprincipled.

A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context

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