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    The Order of Friars Minor (also called the Franciscans, the Franciscan Order, or the Seraphic Order; postnominal abbreviation OFM) is a mendicant Catholic...
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  • The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum; postnominal abbr. OFMCap) is a religious order of Franciscan friars within...
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    The Order of Friars Minor Conventual (O.F.M. Conv.) is a male religious fraternity in the Catholic Church and a branch of the Franciscan Order. Conventual...
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    Franciscan friars, official name: Friars Minor (OFM). The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin or simply Capuchins, official name: Friars Minor Capuchin (OFM...
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  • Recollects (French: Récollets) were a French reform branch of the Friars Minor, a Franciscan order. Denoted by their gray habits and pointed hoods, the Recollects...
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    A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders in the Roman Catholic Church. There are also friars outside of the Roman Catholic Church, such as within...
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    of 11 February 1304. Order of Minims – Hermits of St. Francis of Paola, founded 1436. Other Franciscan orders: Order of Friars Minor Conventual Order...
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    this ideal emerged two orders of mendicant friars – one, the Friars Minor, led by Francis of Assisi; the other, the Friars Preachers, led by Dominic de...
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  • general of the different branches of the Order of Friars Minor. It is a term exclusive to the order and comes directly from its founder, St. Francis of Assisi...
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    (Order of Friars Minor, Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, and Order of Friars Minor Conventual) and Franciscan Third Order Regular (TOR), which belong to...
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    prelate who has served as Archbishop of Tehran-Isfahan since 2021. He is a member of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. Pope Francis has announced...
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    1212, they were organized after the Order of Friars Minor (the First Order), and before the Third Order. As of 2011, there were over 20,000 Poor Clare nuns...
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    Augustinians. The order of friars and affiliated orders are growing in the Indonesian territories. Two Dutch Augustinian friars re-established the order in Papua...
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  • several branches of friars (priests and brothers), contemplative nuns, a congregation of religious sisters, and lay groups. The order's objectives are the...
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  • Massimo Fusarelli (category Order of Friars Minor)
    March 30, 1963) is an Italian Franciscan friar who has served as the minister general of the Order of Friars Minor since 2021. Fusarelli was born on March...
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  • Custody of the Holy Land (Latin: Custodia Terræ Sanctæ) is a custodian priory of the Order of Friars Minor in Jerusalem, founded as the Province of the Holy...
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    Greyfriars, Leicester, was a friary of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans, established on the west side of Leicester by 1250, and dissolved...
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  • Greyfriars, Grayfriars or Gray Friars is a term for Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, in particular, the Conventual Franciscans. The term often refers...
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    structure of leadership and oversight. Later the mendicant orders such as the Carmelites, the Order of Friars Minor, the Order of Preachers, the Order of the...
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    Stigmata (category Crucifixion of Jesus)
    Francis of Assisi is widely considered the first recorded stigmatic. For over fifty years, St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin...
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  • for members of the Polish province of the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscan Observants) established in 1453. The official name is Province of the Immaculate...
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    Assisi (category Municipalities of the Province of Perugia)
    50–45 BC. It is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Order of Friars Minor in that town in 1208, and of St. Clare of Assisi (Chiara d'Offreducci)...
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  • Capuchin can refer to: Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, an order of Roman Catholic friars Capuchin Poor Clares, an order of Roman Catholic contemplative...
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    the mendicant orders all together under the direction of the Order of Friars Minor and the Order of Preachers. In 1215, the Fourth Lateran Council decided...
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    in the town of Santa Maria degli Angeli, near Assisi, Italy. It is closely associated with Francis of Assisi and the Order of Friars Minor, who used the...
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  • like the Carmelites, the Order of Friars Minor, the Order of Preachers, the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and the Order of Saint Augustine formed. These...
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  • the rule of the first order is discussed, i.e., that of the Order of Friars Minor. Whether St. Francis wrote several rules or one rule only, with several...
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    Solanus Casey (category People of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York)
    born Bernard Francis Casey, was an American religious priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was known during his lifetime as a healer for his...
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    Mauro Gambetti (category University of Bologna alumni)
    of cardinal on 28 November 2020. A member of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual since 1992, Gambetti held senior leadership positions in the order beginning...
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    Giovanni Rotondo, Province of Foggia, Italy, owned by the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and dedicated to the Italian Capuchin friar, priest, stigmatist, and...
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