mendicant friar

He then returned to Ireland, where he preached against the mendicant friars.

Whether mendicant friars had this obligation is disputed.

At that time, the Pope also changed their status from that of hermits to mendicant friars.

There are mendicant friars, contemplative nuns, and lay tertiaries.

It was a monk wearing a long dirty robe, bald and disheveled, like a hundred other mendicant friars on the road.

He was conspicuous for his apostolic poverty and soon roused the enmity of the mendicant friars.

The mendicant friars devoted themselves to preaching and teaching, settled primarily in towns, and were active especially among the poor.

There were significant changes in religion which saw mendicant friars and new devotions expand, particularly in the developing burghs.

In 1431 he was attacked by the mendicant friars for having Oxford university issuing him letters protecting him from slander.

Edmund of Langley died in his birthplace and was buried there in the church of the mendicant friars.

Paris was a vehement supporter of the monastic orders against their rivals, the secular clergy and the mendicant friars.

He had not yet broken with the mendicant friars, and from these John of Gaunt chose Wycliffe's defenders.

Thomas's defence of the mendicant friars' claims,Manus quae contra Omnipotentem (ed.

In his introduction, the editor presented the book as an authentic travelogue of a Castilian Franciscan mendicant friar written around 1350.

The Bogomils wore garments like mendicant friars and were known as keen missionaries, traveling far and wide to propagate their doctrines.

The effect of the mendicant friars and their third orders is well illustrated by the peace movement of the mid-thirteenth century known as the Great Alleluia.

As Paisius toured Bulgaria as a mendicant friar, he brought his work, which was copied and spread among the Bulgarians.

By undertaking for the most part ministries earlier developed by the mendicant friars, they gradually expanded upon them and created the repertoire of their own consueta ministeria.

A Prior Provincial is head of an area of certain Orders, notably the Dominicans, who are not cenobitic (monks) but mendicant friars.

In this respect, Dervishes are most similar to mendicant friars in Christianity or Hindu/Buddhist/Jain sadhus.

In addition, all four orders of the mendicant friars established houses in Winchester, one of only a handful of cities where all four orders were present.

CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel.

The confessor and doctor placed upon his naked feet the sandals worn by mendicant friars, robed him in a Franciscan frock, and tied the rope about his waist.

The Brethren of the Common Life, who did not form an order or congregation strictly so called, had become obnoxious to the mendicant friars and the object of their attacks.

During this period and the following Colonial periods the sponsorship of mendicant friars and a process of religious syncretism combined the Pre-Hispanic cultures with Spanish socio-religious tradition.