13 Facts About Franciscans

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Franciscans are a group of related mendicant Christian religious orders, primarily within the Catholic Church.

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2.

Franciscans traveled and preached in the streets, while staying in church properties.

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3.

Conventual Franciscans are sometimes referred to as minorites or greyfriars because of their habit.

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4.

Franciscans had cut all ties that remained with his family, and pursued a life living in solidarity with his fellow brothers in Christ.

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5.

Franciscans was joined by a prominent fellow townsman, Bernard of Quintavalle, who contributed all that he had to the work, and by other companions, who are said to have reached the number of eleven within a year.

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6.

Franciscans was assigned Cardinal Ugolino as protector of the Order by the pope.

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7.

Franciscans planned and built the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi in which Francis of Assisi is buried, a building which includes the friary Sacro Convento, still today the spiritual centre of the Order.

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8.

Franciscans met with the Sultan Malik al-Kamil, initiating a spirit of dialogue and understanding between Christianity and Islam.

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9.

Franciscans died in 1253, after succeeding by recantation in obtaining the removal of his censures.

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10.

The Franciscans had been involved in anti-heretical activities from the beginning simply by preaching and acting as living examples of the Gospel life.

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The Franciscans were involved in the torture and trials of heretics and witches throughout the Middle Ages and wrote their own manuals to guide Inquisitors, such as the 14th century Codex Casanatensis for use by Inquisitors in Tuscany.

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The Companions of Francis Apostolic Religious Institute, with its roots in independent Catholicism and Anglicanism, is a dispersed, egalitarian and ecumenical order of Franciscans based in Pasadena, California, with vowed members in California, Arizona and New Mexico.

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13.

Franciscans established the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum as an academic society based in Jerusalem and Hong Kong for the study of scripture.

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