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Definition of Franciscan order
1. Noun. A Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Francis of Assisi in the 13th century.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Franciscan Order
Literary usage of Franciscan order
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"franciscan order, a term commonly used to designate the members of the various
foundations of religions, whether men or women, professing to observe the ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"In 1262 Urban IV. appointed him inquisitor general, and in 1263 protector of the
franciscan order. He was elected pope Nov. 25, 1277, after the death of ..."
3. Occitan Translations of John XII and Xiii-XVII from a Fourteenth-Century by Marvyn Roy Harris (1985)
"THE LANGUEDOCIAN SPIRITUALS WITHIN THE franciscan order The founding of the
franciscan order by Francis of Assisi and the early practices of the man and his ..."
4. History of the Christian Church by Wilhelm Ernst Möller (1893)
"The Conflicts in the franciscan order. Sources: besides those in WADDING and BALUZE,
... In order to abolish the oppositions within the franciscan order ..."
5. The Missions and Missionaries of California by Zephyrin Engelhardt (1908)
"The franciscan order a Missionary Institute.—Franciscans the First Missionaries
in America. ... The franciscan order, which was the first in the field, ..."
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