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 Jesuits today form the largest single religious order of priests and brothers in the Catholic Church, although they are surpassed by the Franciscan family of first orders Order of Friars Minor ( OFM ), OFM Capuchins, and Conventuals.

The parish was in the care of the Order of Friars Minor ( Franciscan Fathers ) of the Cincinnati Province between 1875 and 1991 and now is staffed by diocesan priests.

* December 24 – The first British Governor of Gibraltar, directly appointed by Queen Anne, Roger Elliott, takes up his residence in the Convent of the Franciscan Friars.

* The Franciscan friar Matteo Bassi is inspired to return to the primitive life of solitude and penance as practiced by St. Francis, giving rise to the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

In 1928, Franciscan Friars held services at San Antonio de Padua.

The Order of Friars Minor and other Franciscan movements are disciples of Saint Francis of Assisi ( 1182-1226 ).

* The Leonine Union of the Order of Friars Minor by Maurice Carmody, Franciscan Institute Publications, 1994.

* Friars Minor in China: 1294-1944, by Arnulf Camps and Pat McCloskey, Franciscan Institute Publications, 1996.

* In the Name of St. Francis: A History of the Friars Minor and Franciscanism until the Early Sixteenth Century, by Grado Giovanni Merlo, translated by Robert J. Karris and Raphael Bonanno, Franciscan Institute Publications, 2009.

* Friars Minor in Ireland from Their Arrival to 1400, by Francis Cotter, Franciscan Institute Publications, 1994.

* Peace and Good in America, A History of the Holy Name Province, Order of the Friars Minor, 1850s to the Present, by Joseph M. White, Franciscan Institute Publications, 2004.

Three reasons in favor of the original name " Guadalupe " include the fact that Juan Diego and Juan Bernardino would have had to be familiar with the " g " and " d " sounds to pronounce their baptismal names, there is no evidence to show that the Virgin was called anything else before Becerra Tanco's proposal, and the number of documents written by contemporary Spaniards and Franciscan Friars arguing for the name of the Virgin to be changed to " Tepeaca " or " Tepeaquilla ," which indicate that indeed the original name was " Guadalupe " and not a native name otherwise there would have been no controversy.

* All Saints ' is next to the site of a Priory of Grey Friars ( Franciscan monks ) the only relic of which is an archway at the end of the church boundary wall, which is on the line of the town wall.

Kolbe's influence has found fertile ground in his own Franciscan order, in the form of the Franciscan Friars of Mary Immaculate ( O. F. M. I ), a Franciscan religious order whose rule is influenced by the spirituality of St. Maximilian.

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.

He was accompanied by the Franciscan Friars Juan Larios and Dionisio de San Buenaventura.

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.

The first mention of the monastery of the Franciscan Friars Minor, the Minderbroederklooster, was in 1309.

Its previous status as a Permanent Private Hall ( PPH ) referred to the fact that it was governed by an outside institution ( the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a Franciscan Order ), rather than by its fellows as is a College.

The records of a process ( 1334 ) conducted in irregular form against the Fraticelli of the Franciscan monastery at Tauris, who had been reported by Dominicans, show that they inveighed openly against John XXII and upheld the views of Michael of Cesena, although in their apocalyptic manner they declared that the order of the Friars Minor was divided in three parts, and that only those would be saved who would journey to the East, i. e. themselves.

In September 1, 1759, King Carlos III of Spain issued a Royal Decree that ended the founding missions of Augustinians and transferred all Augustinian responsibilities in the settlements of Nueva Ecija to Franciscan Friars.

Burlington is the home of the 2007 – 2008 Capuchin Franciscan Novitiate for Friars in Formation for religious life.

It was established on December 8, 1787 ( the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, hence the mission's name ) by the Franciscan order.

St. Francis Covent was founded by the Roman Catholic order of Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Little Falls, Minnesota, in 1891.

In that same year, the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate also became an institute with Pontifical Right.

There are also Third Order Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate, an offshoot of the Franciscan Tertiaries of the Immaculate.

The Roman Catholic church of the Immaculate Conception is served by the Franciscan order.

* Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, a Roman Catholic institute of religious life.

It is also home to a large number of small Catholic institutions, mostly in the Brookland neighborhood, including The Catholic University of America, St. Anselm's Abbey School, Trinity University, the Franciscan Monastery, Whitefriars Hall, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, and the headquarters of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The term " Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary " refers to the combined devotion of both the Immaculate Heart and the Seven Sorrows of Mary as first used by the Franciscan Tertiary Berthe Petit.

The city is also home to the Franciscan College of the Immaculate Conception ( FCIC ), a privately-owned college maintained and developed by the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration based in Olpe, Germany through the cooperation of the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in Mishawaka, Indiana, USA.

Saint Alphonsa Muttathupadathu, F. C. C., or Saint Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception () ( 19 August 1910 – 28 July 1946 ) was a Syro-Malabar Catholic Franciscan Religious Sister who is now honored as a saint.

She was a member of the Roman Catholic group of religious women called the Order of the Immaculate Conception ( also known as Franciscan Conceptionists ).

María, her mother and sister established a Franciscan nunnery through the Order of the Immaculate Conception in the family house at Ágreda.

The building was purchased by the Capuchin Friars and became the Franciscan Monastery of the Immaculate Conception.

He also wrote Tractatus de principiis, a non-theological work, while he was lector at the Franciscan convent in Bologna some time before 1312, and some treatises on the Immaculate Conception at the Franciscan convent in Toulouse.

A studium generale ( a medieval university education ) was founded in 1425, although it was not until 1438 that education was started by the Franciscan order for a baccalaureus degree.

During the reign of Vytenis a city started to emerge from a trading settlement and the first Franciscan Catholic church was built.

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

Kantner, a native San Franciscan, had started out performing on the Bay Area folk circuit in the early 1960s, alongside fellow folkies Jerry Garcia, David Crosby and Janis Joplin.

Peckham's conflicts started because his own ideals were those of a Franciscan, but most of his clergy were concerned with more mundane and materialistic affairs.

The Community of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal started in 1987, and the Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal in 1988.

The Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word started in 1987, and are now a Public Clerical Association of the Faithful.

In 1223, Franciscan friars arrived, and the teenage Elizabeth not only learned about the ideals of Francis of Assisi, but started to live them.

In 1629 a small group of Franciscan missionaries started arriving in Hopi territory, building a church the following year.

In 1583, the Franciscan missionaries took over the evangilization work started by the Augustinians.

* Around 1650 – Chordigers – members of layman Franciscan Order – started their caring for the sick and the poor here.

The building of a Franciscan monastery was started in 1508.

A Franciscan missionary, Father Leopold Moczygemba, started recruiting Upper Silesians in 1852, when Silesia was part of the Kingdom of Prussia.

It started to gain its current appearance in the 17th century, when the baroque-style Franciscan Church was built.

For four centuries, the Catholic Albanians defended their faith, aided by Franciscan missionaries, beginning in the middle of the 17th century, when persecution by Ottoman Turkish lords in Albania started to result in the conversion of many villages to the Islamic faith, particularly among the Orthodox population.

Located in the foot of a hill with the same name, the city started as a Franciscan Mission with the Guaraní population.

The school started at Saint Francis Convent in 1924 to educate young women who joined the Franciscan Sisters.

San Lorenzo has no certain foundation date, but the Municipal Council decided, in 1984, to settle on 6 May 1796, the date when Franciscan friars came and started the evangelization of the area.