| The foundation of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders of friars in the thirteenth century transformed the spiritual life of the Western Church. |
| Michael Robson analyzes the preaching and service of Dominican and Franciscan friars. |
| A pair of Benedictine friars riding on mules and wearing dust-goggles,, appear ahead on the road. |
| There, he advises that someone should recite the Credo continuously for a dying person, which was the customary practice of his fellow friars. |
| A man with a tonsure, much like the friars of old, poked his awkwardly shaped head out of the opening. |
| One of the four main orders of friars, the Dominican s were founded in 1205 by St. Dominic, an Augustinian Canon. |
