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The friary was opened on November 13, 1952, with a small chapel in it for the use of the friars.
The friars lived by begging, mostly in towns, where they were best placed to engage in their principal vocations, pastoral work and preaching.
A man with a tonsure, much like the friars of old, poked his awkwardly shaped head out of the opening.
The laity, however, reserved their deepest respect for the celibate, highly-educated Franciscan friars.
A pair of Benedictine friars riding on mules and wearing dust-goggles,, appear ahead on the road.
There was a long silence in which we heard naught but the sanative hums of the friars and abbes.
Early in the thirteenth century, the monastic map of western Europe was transformed by the emergence of the mendicant friars.
One of the four main orders of friars, the Dominican s were founded in 1205 by St. Dominic, an Augustinian Canon.
There, he advises that someone should recite the Credo continuously for a dying person, which was the customary practice of his fellow friars.
Among regular clergy, the orders of friars retained a slightly double-edged esteem among the laity as skilled confessors and dramatic preachers.
The friars inhabited the cloister, sang the matins, fasted and prayed within the walls and lived their lives in Banada six centuries ago.
Thomas was a biblical commentator, an educator of his fellow friars, a theologian, a preacher, and a great contemplative.
Michael Robson analyzes the preaching and service of Dominican and Franciscan friars.
The foundation of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders of friars in the thirteenth century transformed the spiritual life of the Western Church.
Yorkshire's own outlaw, Robin Hood, was among the original hoodie wearers, alongside monks and friars who wore cowls.
Friaries were occupied by friars, abbeys were headed by abbots, priories by priors.
In the 1200s, members of new religious orders, called friars, began to work among the people.
There is no better time to initiate experientially the friars and sisters of the Order in collaboration than during their initial formation.
Rabelais continually returns to the indolence and gulosity of the friars.
In 1221 the friars Preachers founded their first convent in Friesach, the oldest town in Carinthia, Austria.
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And he went to the friars at esker to take it off of him, and they took it off.
Other interesting testimony to the bookcraft and collecting habits of the friars is not wanting.
Your Majesty has ordered that no Observantine friars may come to this country, but that all who come be discalced.
A priest came out, wearing the Jacobin habit, one of those preaching friars who had been fevering the blood of Paris.
Thus, by forcing their way into the guardhouse, the friars, brought him into the city.
The work of civilizing them was left to Legaspi and the Spanish friars, who were the first real settlers.
At the beginning the inquisitors were Dominican friars, presumably good theologians but unversed in the intricacies of the law.
They lead to the cells of the friars, and are distinct from the entrances to the church.
The friars at this tide were nought inclined to mirth, but uneathly kept their seats, silently eyeing each other, and casting in their minds what selcouth gambol was to follow this preparation.
Do you think he will teach us to do cures like the friars used at esker?
At that instant the friars muleteers came up and asked what he was stripping him for.
He was accompanied, of course, by the fearless and quenchless friars.
But although Robin fought against the clergy, the friars and monks who did wrong, he did not fight against religion.
The friars looked at one another with a woeful look, and slowly and sadly they mounted their horses again and rode away with never a word.
There are rogues and knaves here, friars and priests, barons and burgesses, bakers and butchers, tailors and tanners, masons and miners, and folk of many other crafts.
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