The settlement was named for St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan Order, but was also commonly known as " Mission Dolores " owing to the presence of a nearby creek named Arroyo de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, meaning " Our Lady of Sorrows Creek.

After an outbreak of the Black Death in 1347, which greatly reduced the population, an order of Franciscan monks established a presence in the city.

Bernardino of Siena, of the Franciscan order of the Observance, visited L ' Aquila twice, the first time to preach in the presence of King René of Naples, and in 1444, on his second visit, he died in the city.

There is a strong Franciscan presence at Olean General Hospital, and the university operates the Warming House, an area soup kitchen believed to be the oldest student-run soup kitchen in the United States.

The presence of CUA attracted many other Catholic organizations and institutions to the area, including Trinity College ( now Trinity University ), established 1897, the Dominican House of Studies in 1905, the Mount St. Sepulchre Franciscan Monastery, also in 1905, or Theological College in 1917.

The first reported European presence in the area dates back to 1635, when Franciscan Fray Juan Jerónimo Jiménez founded the settlement of San Buena Ventura de Quimiri, which was three kilometres ( 2 mi ) away from present-day La Merced.

In Carrick Beg are the small St Molleran's parish church ( parts of which date back to the 13th century ) and the larger Franciscan friary.

The city's Franciscan monastery dates from the 18th century, and is also Baroque in style, with exceptional architecture, especially of the church yard, and monastery church interior, with its beautiful altar and paintings.

The university ’ s administrative headquarters is located in the Minderbroedersberg building, which dates back to 1699 and was originally built as a Franciscan monastery, was later used as a prison, and served as the regional court house for most of the twentieth century.

The official arrival of the Franciscan Friars Minor in Syria dates from the Bull addressed by Pope Gregory IX to the clergy of Palestine in 1230, charging them to welcome the Friars Minor, and to allow them to preach to the faithful and hold oratories and cemeteries of their own.

The dates of the week were proposed by Father Paul Wattson, cofounder of the Graymoor Franciscan Friars.

The Franciscan historian, Father Luke Wadding ( 1588-1657 ) dates the origin of the Franciscan Crown to the year 1422.

The Spanish Colonial architecture Franciscan church at San José de Tumacácori dates to the late 18th century.

The original building, which unfortunately no more exists, dates back to before World War I and was built by the Franciscan Capuchin Order.

The university, located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden, traces its roots back to 1425, when a Franciscan studium generale was founded in Lund next to the Lund Cathedral, arguably making it the oldest institution of higher education in Scandinavia followed by studium generales in Uppsala in 1477 and Copenhagen in 1479.

Seeing their bodies as they were processed back to Assisi, Fernando meditated on the heroism of these men ; inspired by their example, and longing for the same gift of martyrdom, he obtained permission from church authorities to leave the Augustinian Canons to join the new Franciscan Order.

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.

The conquistadores, after subjugating the Bicol mainland, came back to the island with Franciscan missionaries.

Christianity again came to China in the 13th century during the Mongol-established Yuan dynasty, when the Mongols brought Nestorianism back to the region, and contacts began with the Papacy, such as Franciscan missionaries in 1294.

In the back, the Ljubljana Franciscan Church of the Annunciation | Ljubljana Franciscan Church can be seen

Katarínka ( German St. Katharein ) are the ruins of a Franciscan monastery dating back to early 17th century, located deep in the forests of Little Carpathians ( Malé Karpaty ) mountains of western Slovakia, 20 km north of Trnava over Dubovský creek, close to villages Dechtice, Naháč and Dobrá Voda.

* Franciscan Convent-dating back to the 18th century, the convent is one of the richest architectural objects in the municipality ; its church, to the invocation of Saint Anthony, was designed in the baroque-style, and its interior is highlighted by worked alter and image of Nossa Senhora da Conceição.

Nicholas was alive at the right time ( very roughly-he is quite likely to have been a child in 1360 ), and had the right skills, but he was a Carmelite friar, not a Franciscan, and no earlier biographer indicates that he spent years travelling back and forth across the Atlantic on government business.

The Franciscan monastery in Fojnica has a large library of philosophical and theological works printed from the 16th to the 19th centuries, with some dating back to 1481.

It was in this capacity that he welcomed the remains of the Franciscan protomartyrs, whose remains were being transported back to Assisi, after their deaths in Morroco.

The former Franciscan monastery dating back to the 17th century is located in the suburb of Volkers and beautifully overlooks the hills of the western Rhön Mountains.

Roots of University of Mostar date back to 1895 when the Franciscan theological school was established.

( 1271 – 4 July 1336 ; Elisabet in Catalan, Isabel in Aragonese, Portuguese and Spanish ), was queen consort of Portugal, a tertiary of the Franciscan Order and is venerated as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.

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.

* The Franciscan Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament ( or Chapel of the Apparition )-in memory of Jesus ' meeting with his mother after the Resurrection.

Second Council of Lyon ( 1274 ) attempted reunion with the Eastern churches, approved Franciscan and Dominican orders, a tithe to support crusades, and conclave procedures.

On 28 February 1476, Pope Sixtus IV, a Franciscan after whom the Sistine Chapel is named, authorized those dioceses that wished to introduce the feast to do so, and introduced it to his own diocese of Rome in 1477, with a specially composed Mass and Office of the feast.

Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli ( sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo ; 1445 – 1517 ) was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting.

Another example was the case of the province of Venice, which was handed to the Franciscan inquisitors, who quickly became notorious for their frauds against the Church, by enriching themselves with confiscated property from the heretics and the selling of absolutions.

Some Franciscan priests held millenarian beliefs and the natives taking the Spanish conquerors for gods was an idea that went well with this theology.

* The Mensa Christi Church, run by the Franciscan religious order, commemorates the traditional location where Jesus dined with the Apostles after his Resurrection

Gibbon points out a number of similarities between Siôn Cent and Glyndŵr ( including physical appearance, age, education, character ) and claims that Owain spent his last years living with Alys passing himself off as an aging Franciscan friar and family tutor.

His cousin, Ernesto Pacelli, was a key financial advisor to Pope Leo XIII ; his father, Filippo Pacelli, a Franciscan tertiary, was the dean of the Sacra Rota Romana ; and his brother, Francesco Pacelli, became a lay canon lawyer and the legal advisor to Pius XI, in which role he negotiated the Lateran Treaty in 1929, the pact with Benito Mussolini, bringing an end to the Roman Question.

He approved in the Franciscan Brothers and Sisters of Penance Rule in 1221 with the Bull Memoriale Propositi.

The list of supposed members is immense ; among the more probable candidates are George Bubb Dodington, a fabulously corpulent man in his 60s ; William Hogarth, although hardly a gentleman, has been associated with the club after painting Dashwood as a Franciscan Friar and John Wilkes, though much later, under the pseudonym John of Aylesbury.

Eventually, fearing imprisonment and possible execution, Ockham, Michael of Cesena and other Franciscan sympathizers fled Avignon on 26 May 1328, and eventually took refuge in the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria-who was also engaged in dispute with the papacy, and became Ockham's patron.

After Michael of Cesena's death in 1342, William became the leader of the small band of Franciscan dissidents living in exile with Louis IV.

These are customarily placed under the rubric of Ockham's razor, named after the 14th century Franciscan friar William of Ockham, who is credited with many different expressions of the maxim, not all of which have yet been found among his extant works.

Louis IV was assisted in his doctrinal dispute with the papacy by Marsilius of Padua and later by the English Franciscan friar and scholar William of Ockham.

Hands with Stigmata, depicted on a Order of Saint Francis | Franciscan church in Lienz, Austria.

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.

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.

The present building was constructed under the direction of Franciscan Fathers Juan Bautista Velderrain and Juan Bautista Llorenz mainly with native labor working from 1783-1797 with a loan of 7, 000 pesos and serves the Catholics of the San Xavier District of Tohono O ' odham Nation.

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

An early map illustrating the route of " El Camino Real " in 1821, along with the 21 Franciscan missions in Alta California.

In 1670 Archbishop Petrus Parcevic, the apostolic vicar of Moldavia concluded an agreement with the head of the Franciscan Province of Transylvania on the return of the Bacău monastery to them in order to ensure the spiritual welfare of the local Hungarian community.

A map produced in 1920 illustrating the route of " El Camino Real " in 1821, along with the 21 Franciscan Alta California missions.