He was a man who was in training to wear the brown robe of a Franciscan friar. |
It certainly produced its share of deviants, among them the Augustinian friar who would destroy its unity, Martin Luther. |
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. |
At the height of the indulgence sale, Martin Luther, an Augustinian friar from Germany, traveled to Rome and was shocked by what he saw. |
Fr Tony Lester is a Carmelite friar and Prior to a community of Carmelite brothers who live in More House on Heslington Lane. |
The friar called them Amazons, after the fabled female warriors of Greek mythology, and the Amazon River was named for them. |