The Franciscan monastery, il Sacro Convento, and the lower and upper church ( Basilica inferiore e superiore ) of St Francis were begun immediately after his canonization in 1228, and completed in 1253.

These include the Franciscan explorers Giovanni da Pian del Carpine in 1245 and William of Rubruck in 1253.

In 1253 he held the Franciscan chair at Paris and was proceeded as Master of Theology.

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.

* 1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.

* 1253 – April 28 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, declares his intention to preach the Lotus Sutra and Nam Myoho Renge Kyo as the true Buddhism, essentially founding the branch of Buddhism now known as Nichiren Buddhism.

The schools of Nichiren Buddhism trace themselves to the monk Nichiren ( 日蓮: " Sun-Lotus ") and the proclamation of his teachings in 1253.

The first direct recorded encounter between European Christians and Buddhists was in 1253 when the king of France sent William of Rubruck as an ambassador to the court of the Mongol Empire.

* 1253 – 1284: William VII of Montferrat ( William )

It was made into a market town and borough by a charter from the Earl of Derby, William de Ferrers, on 14 January 1253.

Voyage of William of Rubruck in 1253 – 1255.

On his return, William presented to King Louis IX a very clear and precise report, entitled Itinerarium fratris Willielmi de Rubruquis de ordine fratrum Minorum, Galli, Anno gratia 1253 ad partes Orientales.

Richard FitzRoy's widow remarried, between 1250 and 1253, William de Wilton ( killed at the Battle of Lewes ), a prominent Justice.

* 1253: William Capellanus and Alexander de Carrick

To ascend the throne, he abdicated from the county of Boulogne and later ( 1253 ) divorced Matilda.

Andrew died some time after 1253, while he was active as a missionary in Palestine.

Muban ruled Korea under successive Warrior Leaders until the Mongol Conquest in 1253.

* 1253: First known mention of the name " Gdynia ", as a Pomeranian ( Kashubian ) fishing village.

The Palatinate and Bavaria were originally held by the same individual, but in 1253, they were divided between two members of the House of Wittelsbach.

* 1253 – Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.

* 1253 – Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.

* 1194 – Clare of Assisi, Italian saint ( d. 1253 )

During Louis IX's stay in Acre, Henry I died in 1253, and was succeeded in Cyprus by his infant son Hugh II.

In 1253, Mindaugas was crowned and the Kingdom of Lithuania was established.

During the summer of 1253 he was crowned King of Lithuania, ruling between 300, 000 and 400, 000 subjects.

In the 1990s the historian Edvardas Gudavičius published research supporting an exact coronation date – 6 July 1253.

Mindaugas, the King of Lithuania, was baptised together with his wife after his coronation in 1253, hoping that this would help stop the Crusaders ' attacks, which it did not.

To eliminate any possible doubts, Nichiren decided to spend some time at Mount Kōya, the centre of esoteric Buddhism, and also in Nara, Japan ’ s ancient capital, where he studied the Ritsu sect, which emphasized strict monastic discipline and ordination. During this time, he became convinced of the pre-eminence of the Lotus Sutra and in 1253, returned to Seichoji.

Among other things, in 1253 Nichiren predicted the Mongol invasions of Japan: a prediction which was validated in 1274.

The mantra he expounded on 28 April 1253, known as the Daimoku or Odaimoku, Nam ( u )- Myōhō-Renge-Kyō, expresses his devotion to that body of teachings.

( The Wonderful Dharma of the Lotus ), Nichiren added to the title the word Namu ( devotion to ), and declared on 28 April 1253, the chanting of the phrase Nam ( u ) Myoho Renge Kyo as his basic practice for revealing one ’ s Buddha nature in daily life.

Then in 1253 Przemysł issued a charter to Thomas of Guben ( Gubin ) for the founding of a town under Magdeburg law, between the castle and the river.

He became Bishop of Verdun in 1253.

In August 1253, after much worry about the order's insistence on absolute poverty, Innocent finally approved the rule of the 2nd Order of the Franciscans, the Poor Clares, founded by St. Clare of Assisi, the great friend of St Francis.

The Dominican priest Peter of Verona, martyred by Albigensian heretics in 1252, was raised to the altars, as was Stanislaus of Szczepanów, the great Polish Archbishop of Cracow, both in 1253.

Historian Romas Batūra identifies the city with Voruta, one of the castles of Mindaugas, crowned in 1253 as King of Lithuania.

The second source is the writing of the Franciscan monk Petrus Olai ( Peder Olsen ) of Roskilde, from 1527.

In 1450, Barnaba Manassei, a Franciscan monk, began the Monte di Pietà movement in Perugia, Italy.

Colonna's work was a great influence on the Franciscan monk François Rabelais, who in the 16th century, used Thélème, the French form of the word, as the name of a fictional Abbey in his novels, Gargantua and Pantagruel.

( By a Franciscan monk, in French )

* Bartholomeus Anglicus, English Franciscan monk and encyclopedia writer ( b. before 1203 )

Aztec culture and history is primarily known through archaeological evidence found in excavations such as that of the renowned Templo Mayor in Mexico City ; from indigenous bark paper codices ; from eyewitness accounts by Spanish conquistadors such as Hernán Cortés and Bernal Díaz del Castillo ; And especially from 16th and 17th century descriptions of Aztec culture and history written by Spanish clergymen and literate Aztecs in the Spanish or Nahuatl language, such as the famous Florentine Codex compiled by the Franciscan monk Bernardino de Sahagún with the help of indigenous Aztec informants.

* Friar Thomas, a Franciscan monk.

He was at some point confused with Bartholomeus de Glanvilla, another Franciscan monk who lived a century later.

A Franciscan abbey was built nearby the castle in 1448 and John of Capistrano, a famous Italian monk, was sent by the Pope to organize a crusade against the Turks, and lived in the castle.

* 1322-Odoric of Pordenone, a Franciscan monk from Italy, arrives in China

He at length became a Franciscan monk of Canterbury.

The first European record about Majapahit came from the travel log of the Italian Mattiussi, a Franciscan monk.

In prison, Blackthorne is befriended by a Franciscan monk, who reveals further details about Jesuit conquests and the Portuguese " Black Ship " which each year takes the vast profits from the silk trade back to Europe.

In 1661 the celebrated Fiat Lux, a work by the Franciscan monk John Vincent Cane, was published ; in it, the oneness and beauty of Roman Catholicism are contrasted with the confusion and multiplicity of Protestant sects.

Yet another states that an image of this Virgin appeared on the sleeve of Franciscan monk Martín de Valencia, while praying on the pyramid mound of Cholula.

The grave of a Franciscan monk on the side of the church of St. Anne

The " Vlach interpretation " was totally ignored also by the Franciscan monk Blasius Kleiner in his History of Bulgaria, written in 1761, and the Serbian historian Jovan Rajić in his History of Various Slav peoples and Especially of Bulgarians, Croats and Serbs, published in 1795.

Aramis uses this secret to persuade the dying general of the Jesuits ( disguised as a Franciscan monk ), to name him the new general of the Society.

* Berthold Schwarz, Franciscan monk

Statue of Franciscan monk hitting a piñata in Acolman, Mexico State

The Franciscan monk Bartholomeus Anglicus ( ca.

Vincenzo Coronelli ( August 16, 1650 – December 9, 1718 ) was a Franciscan monk, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist known in particular for his atlases and globes.

The collapse was witnessed by Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk who was on his way to cross it.

Another famous account of the period was De Proprietatibus Rerum ( c. 1230 – 1240 ) of English Franciscan monk Bartholomaeus Anglicus.