At an early age he entered a Franciscan friary at Montalto.

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.

A Franciscan friary was built on the site of the town in about 792 AD.

When Jazco of Salzwedel from Gützkow founded a Franciscan friary within the walls of Greifswald, the Cistercians at Eldena lost much of their influence on the city's further development.

The Franciscan friary (" the " grey monastery ") and its succeeding buildings are now the Pomeranian State Museum.

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 ).

Giving up all his worldly belongings, and changing his baptismal name, Gonzalo, for that of Francisco, he entered the Franciscan friary of San Juan de los Reyes, recently founded by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile at Toledo.

An important Franciscan friary was founded in the town in 1252 in the reign of Henry III of England which became the head of the Irish custody of West Ireland and was one of the richest religious houses in Ireland.

Increasingly, royalty preferred to stay at the Franciscan friary, between the Castle and King's Staith on the Ouse, while their staff resided at St Mary's Abbey and St Andrew's Priory in the Fishergate area.

Thomas FitzMaurice, 1st Baron Kerry founded a Franciscan friary there in 1253, and Nicholas, the 2nd Lord Kerry, built a leper house there in 1312.

The town museum ( open in summer ) is housed in a late medieval building which was part of the claustral ranges of the town's Franciscan friary.

The boy became ill when he was only one month old, and his mother prayed to St. Francis and promised that her son would spend a year in a Franciscan friary if he were healed.

From his early years Francis showed signs of extraordinary sanctity, and at the age of thirteen, being admonished by a vision of a Franciscan friar, he entered a friary of the Franciscan Order in order to fulfil the vow made by his parents.

* The Cathedral of Saint-Pierre, built in the early 16th century as a Franciscan friary, was the cathedral of Francis de Sales and is home to a number of baroque pieces from the 16th century.

Once on Sherkin pier, people can visit the Franciscan friary, if it is open.

The building sold again in 1947 and became, St Anthony's College, a Franciscan friary

The Saunders Roe company set up a factory at Fryars ( the site of the old Franciscan friary to the east ) when it was feared that the company's main base on the Isle of Wight would be a target for World War II Luftwaffe bombers.

His remains were buried in the cemetery adjoining the Church of St. Oswald of Worcester, while the head was taken to the Franciscan friary of Douai, to which the martyr belonged, where it is still preserved and venerated.

The parish churches in Uppsala were the Holy Trinity Church, or " Farmers ' Church " () as it was often called ; Saint Peter's church (); Our Lady's Church (); and a Franciscan friary.

A Franciscan friary was also established in the town around 1300, while the O ' Reilly's built a new castle in the late fourteenth-century on Tullymongan Hill, overlooking the town centre.

The palace complex was laid out on a square ground plan measuring 123 x 123 m. A garden adjoined to it from the north and a Franciscan friary, founded by King Sigismund in 1424, from the south.

Today the Catholic church of St. Cronin is built close to the site of a ruined Franciscan friary, which was founded by the O ' Carrolls about 1477.

* Medieval Franciscan Houses, by John R. H. Moorman, Franciscan Institute Publications, 1983.

Richard of Middleton ( Medieval Latin: Richardus de Mediavilla ) ( c. 1249 – 1302 ) was a member of the Franciscan Order, a theologian, and philosopher.

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.

In 1769, Gaspar de Portolà and his under 200 men expedition founded the Presidio of San Diego ( military post ), and on July 16, Franciscan friars Junípero Serra, Juan Viscaino and Fernando Parron raised and ' blessed a cross ', establishing the first mission in upper Las Californias, Mission San Diego de Alcalá.

Paracale was founded as a mission post by Franciscan friars in 1581. It was established as a town in 1611. However, the mission was abandoned in 1634, reestablished by the Franciscans in 1638 but was abandoned again in 1662.

Adam Marsh ( Adam de Marisco ) ( c. 1200 – 18 November 1259 ) was an English Franciscan, scholar and theologian.

In the Spanish days Franciscan monks roamed here to collect the resin for incense.

A Franciscan Monastery was built which, for many years provided an education for local children.

He died at the age of 27 in 1291, and was buried in Franciscan convent at Barcelona ; since 1852 his remains are buried in Barcelona Cathedral.

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.

The substantial remains of the western cardo have now been exposed to view near the junction with Suq el-Bazaar, and remnants of one of the tetrapylones are preserved in the 19th century Franciscan chapel at the junction of the Via Dolorosa and Suq Khan ez-Zeit.

Alexander of Hales ( c. 1185 — 1245 ) ( also Halensis, Alensis, Halesius, Alesius ) also called Doctor Irrefragibilis ( by Pope Alexander IV in the Bull De Fontibus Paradisi ) and Theologorum Monarcha was a theologian and philosopher important in the development of Scholasticism and of the Franciscan School.

In 1236 or 1237, aged about 50, he made the surprising step of entering the Franciscan order, thus becoming the first Franciscan to hold a University chair.

His doctrinal positions became the starting point for the Franciscan school of theology.

Shortly before his death, he passed his chair on to John of La Rochelle, setting the precedent for that chair to be held by a Franciscan.

As the first Franciscan to hold a chair at the University of Paris, Alexander had many significant disciples.

His disputations prior to his becoming a Franciscan cover over 1, 600 pages in their modern edition.

At the beginning of 1236, he entered the Franciscan order ( he was at least 50 ) and was the first Franciscan to hold a chair at the University of Paris.

When he became a Franciscan and thus created a formal Franciscan school of theology at Paris, it was soon clear that his students lacked some of the basic tools for the discipline.

Though he also continued the tradition of Aristotle-and Augustine-focused thought in the Franciscan school, he did so through an Anselm-directed lens.

“ The Idea of Limbo in Alexander of Hales and Bonaventure ” in Franciscan Studies 57 ( 1999 ), 4-8.

“ Alexander of Hales ,” in The History of Franciscan Theology, edited by idem.

St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 1994.

“ Distinct Ideas and Perfect Solicitude: Alexander of Hales, Richard Rufus, and Odo Rigaldus .” Franciscan Studies 53 ( 1993 ), 8-13.

Bernardino Ochino was born in Siena son of the barber Domenico Ochino, and at the age of 7 or 8 around 1504 was entrusted to the Minorite order of Franciscan Friars, then from 1510 he studied medicine at Perugia.

The Berry Tower is all that remains of the former church of the Holy Rood and there are even fewer remains from the substantial Franciscan Friary established ca.