Sentences with friar
fri·ar
F f - A Franciscan friar, much of Bacon's life is obscure, but he was born in Somerset and probably studied at Oxford before teaching in Paris.
- When the first missionary friars arrived in what was then called New Spain, they decided to evangelize the indigenous peoples in their own languages.
- Straub spent more than a year living with Franciscan friars working in impoverished areas all over the world, including India, Jamaica, and the United States.
- The foundation of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders of friars in the thirteenth century transformed the spiritual life of the Western Church.
- While scholars had already located several copies of the other two, the Abbotsford House book is the only known translation by Osbern Bokenham, the Augustinian friar and poet.
- It is possible that the panel was painted for a Franciscan friar - presumably someone of standing, or who had wealthy connections outside the convent.
- ‘Who are they,’ Francis lamented towards the end of his life, ‘who have torn my order and my friars from my hands?
- One document acknowledges an archdeacon's grant of the use of his books to a house of Franciscan friars, who were to keep the books when the donor died.
- He was in early life a Dominican friar, but broke from his order and left Italy to avoid prosecution for heresy.
- Such language, even coming as it was from the mouth of a Dominican friar, was bound to get Savonarola in trouble.
- In the 1200's, members of new religious orders, called friars, began to work among the people.
- The family came to prominence when Francesco della Rovere, a Franciscan friar from an obscure noble family based in the far-flung Marche region, became Pope in 1471.
- The Carmelite friars who made up the community in Leighlinbridge were Normans from the Carmelite Province of England where the two principal friaries were at Aylesford and Hulne.
- Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican friar, and a theological giant.