The Franciscan friars renovated it further in 1555, as it had been neglected despite increased numbers of pilgrims.

* 1707 24 December – The first British Governor directly appointed by Queen Anne, Roger Elliott, took up residence in the Convent of the Franciscan friars.

As a Franciscan friar, Bacon no longer held a teaching post, and after 1260 his activities were further restricted by a Franciscan statute forbidding friars from publishing books or pamphlets without specific approval.

The team's name, Spanish for " fathers ", refers to the Spanish Franciscan friars who founded San Diego in 1769.

* 1289 – Franciscan friars begin missionary work in China.

Thus in about 1339-40 he executed two Franciscan friars from Bohemia, Ulrich and Martin, who had gone beyond the authority granted them and had publicly preached against the Lithuanian religion.

It is thought that the Dominican and Franciscan orders of Christian friars developed the morality play in the 13th century by adding actors and theatrical elements to their sermons.

In the 17th century, Franciscan friars in Spanish Florida built missions along Apalachee Bay.

Beginning in 1629, with the arrival of 30 friars in Hopi country, the Franciscan Period started.

As the rules of the Franciscan Order forbade friars to live alone, two missionaries were assigned to each settlement, sequestered in the mission's convento.

Father Juan Crespí, as a member of the Portolà expedition of 1769, authored the first written account of actual interaction between Franciscan friars and the indigenous population in the region that today makes up Orange County, after the group passed through on July 22 of that year.

Later, they moved to Tolpetlac to be closer to Tenochtitlan ( Mexico City ) and the Catholic mission that had been set up by the Franciscan friars.

The Catholic order of Franciscan Friars built a friary for the training of young friars at Chilworth, on the outskirts of Guildford, with the building completed in 1892.

It was in this capacity, in 1219, that he came into contact with five Franciscan friars who were on their way to Morocco to preach the Gospel to the Muslims there.

Opposition was concentrated in the houses of Carthusian monks, Observant Franciscan friars and Bridgettine monks and nuns ; which were, to the Government's embarrassment, exactly those orders where the monastic life was acknowledged as being fully observed.

All the houses of the Observant Friars were handed over to the mainstream Franciscan order ; the friars from the Greenwich house being imprisoned, where many died from ill-treatment.

Exploring expeditions were accompanied by Franciscan friars.

The Order arose in 1520 when Matteo da Bascio, an Observant Franciscan friar native to the Italian region of the Marches, said he had been inspired by God with the idea that the manner of life led by the friars of his day was not the one which their founder, St. Francis of Assisi, had envisaged.

By some accounts it was founded by Franciscan friars as early as the early 18th Century and called Nuestra Senora De La Luz ( Our Lady of the Light ).

Greyfriars occupied a unique position in Oxford, in that its University Hall and Franciscan friary were part of the same institution and coexisted on the same site — however, the friars were not usually members of the academic hall ( though this was not without exception ), nor were the students actually affiliated to the friary ( the two groups did, however, mingle, most notably at mealtimes ).

* 1524-Martin de Valencia goes to New Spain with 12 Franciscan friars

* 1573-Large-scale evangelization of the Florida Indian nations and tribes begins with the arrival of Franciscan friars ; Augustinian order enters Ecuador

In 1618 two Franciscan friars were sent from Mérida to teach Christianity to the Itza.

An alternative theory, recently proposed by George Knysh, suggests that he was initially appointed in Avignon as a professor of philosophy in the Franciscan school, and that his disciplinary difficulties did not begin until 1327.

The Franciscan missionary, William of Rubruck, in his work on Asian customs, declares that everything he had heard from Andrew on the subject was fully borne out by his own personal observations.

* Pedro de Gante, Franciscan missionary in Mexico ( c. 1480 – 1572 )

They included five European Franciscan missionaries, one Mexican Franciscan missionary, three Japanese Jesuits and seventeen Japanese laymen including three young boys.

* September 8 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary ( d. 1444 )

** September 8 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary ( d. 1444 )

* August 28 – Junípero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary ( b. 1713 )

* October 23 – Bernardino de Sahagún, Franciscan missionary ( b. 1499 )

* November 24 – Junipero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary ( d. 1784 )

** Bernardino de Sahagún, Franciscan missionary ( d. 1590 )

* May 20 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary ( b. 1380 )

* William of Rubruck, Franciscan missionary ( approximate date ; b. c. 1220 )

Also in 1776, Fray Francisco Garces, a Franciscan missionary, spent a week near Havasupai, unsuccessfully attempting to convert a band of Native Americans to Christianity.

* Gerónimo Boscana Christian ( Roman Catholic Franciscan ) missionary

* Antonio de Olivares Christian ( Roman Catholic Franciscan ) missionary

The San Xavier District is the location of a major tourist attraction near Tucson, Mission San Xavier del Bac, the " White Dove of the Desert ," founded in 1700 by the Jesuit missionary and explorer Eusebio Kino, with the current church building constructed by the Tohono O ' odham and Franciscan priests from 1783 to 1797.

Father Padre Fermín de Francisco Lasuén de Arasqueta ( June 7, 1736 – June 26, 1803 ) was a Spanish missionary to Alta California, the second presidente and founder of the California Franciscan Mission Chain.

" The Chief was given the Spanish name Francisco Solano during baptism at the Catholic Mission, and is named after the Spanish Franciscan missionary, Father Francisco Solano.

Later the same year, the Franciscan missionary Francisco Palóu founded the Mission San Francisco de Asís ( Mission Dolores ).

* 1521-Pope Leo X grants Franciscan Francis Quiñones permission and faculties to go as a missionary to the New World together with Juan Clapión

* 1525-Italian Franciscan missionary Giulio Zarco is sent to Michoacán on the western coast of Mexico where he will become very proficient in some of the indigenous languages

* 1539-The Pueblos of what is now the U. S. Southwest are encountered by Spanish Franciscan missionary Marcos de Niza

* 1585-Carmelite leader Jerome Gracian meets with Martin Ignatius de Loyola, a Franciscan missionary from China.