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11 hours ago · In June 1572, the town of Gorkum (now Gorinchem, Netherlands) fell into the hands of the Watergeuzen, militant Calvinist rebels. The rebels arrested and imprisoned 19 clergy and religious who refused to renounce their Catholic faith. These men included eleven Franciscan friars, four diocesan priests, two Norbertines, a Dominican, and a canon ...
11 hours ago · Another significant aspect of faith is its communal dimension. Father Richard Rohr, a prominent Franciscan friar, speaks about the importance of the faith community in nurturing and sustaining individual faith. He says, “Faith is lived and strengthened in community.
11 hours ago · In 1902, 18 friars were hospitalized and some monks were jailed after the Franciscans and Greeks disagreed over who could clean the lowest step of the Chapel of the Franks. In the aftermath, the Greek patriarch, Franciscan custos, Ottoman governor and French consul general signed a convention that both denominations could sweep it.
1 day ago · Fray Alonso de Ojeda, a Dominican friar from Seville, convinced Queen Isabella of the existence of Crypto-Judaism among Andalusian conversos during her stay in Seville between 1477 and 1478. [a] [46] A report, produced by Pedro González de Mendoza , Archbishop of Seville, and by the Segovian Dominican Tomás de Torquemada —of converso family himself—corroborated this assertion.
11 hours ago · The remaining 33 martyrs were foreigners, predominantly priests and women of religious orders. They represented various Christian denominations and missionary groups including the Order of Preachers, the Paris Foreign Mission Society, the Friars Minor, Jesuits, Salesians, and the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary.
11 hours ago · Introduced by Franciscan friars in the 18th century, this cultivar thrives under the Golden State’s Mediterranean climate. The tree itself stands tall at a height of 20-30 feet (six to nine meters), boasting elliptical, gray-green leaves that are a hallmark of its identity.
11 hours ago · Of these, eleven were Franciscan friars, called Recollects, of the convent of Gorcum, amongst whom were Nicholas Pick the guardian, and Jerom Werden, vicar of the same convent. The former was thirty-eight years old, an eminent preacher, and a man endued with the primitive spirit of his order, especially the love of holy poverty and mortification.
