| He was in early life a Dominican friar, but broke from his order and left Italy to avoid prosecution for heresy. |
| At the height of the indulgence sale, Martin Luther, an Augustinian friar from Germany, traveled to Rome and was shocked by what he saw. |
| He was a man who was in training to wear the brown robe of a Franciscan friar. |
| While they await the arrival of the man's confessor, a local Dominican friar, the brothers encourage him to acknowledge and repent for his sins. |
| Such language, even coming as it was from the mouth of a Dominican friar, was bound to get Savonarola in trouble. |
| 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. |
