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.

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

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.

The evidence is found in two early maps, one made by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel in about 1522, the very first map to show the Falklands, the other a French copy of a Portuguese map bought in Lisbon by André Thévet ( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

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

The later forms of Late Middle Japanese are the first to be described by non-native sources, in this case the Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries ; and thus there is better documentation of Late Middle Japanese phonology than for previous forms ( for instance, the Arte da Lingoa de Iapam ).

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.

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

* 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.

** Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Franciscan prelate and first bishop of Mexico ( d. 1548 )

This is the site of the famed spring described by the Franciscan Missionary Joseph DeLa Roch D ' Allion in 1627, the first recorded mention of oil on the North American Continent.

October 2006 saw the opening of the town's first dedicated Municipal Art Gallery and visual arts centre, the Highlanes Gallery, housed in the former Franciscan Friary on St. Laurence Street.

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.

The new Franciscan priests, Fathers Isidoro Barcenilla and Agustín Merino, succeeded in attracting more converts from villages to the north and east of the mission, so that by the end of the first year it had population of 33 newly-converted Catholic Indians, known to the missionaries as neophytes ( McCarthy 1958 ).

The Franciscan Fathers grew grapes and produced sacramental wine from the first vineyard in the Sonoma Valley, which was first planted in 1825.

It was most probably his first wife named Margaret who founded the Franciscan Church of the Holy Virgin in Bacău.

Junípero Serra was a Majorcan Franciscan who founded the first the Alta California Spanish missions.

Following the invasion, in 1524, the first 12 Franciscan missionaries arrived in what is now Mexico City.

Rabelais was first a novice of the Franciscan order, and later a friar at Fontenay-le-Comte, where he studied Greek and Latin, as well as science, philology, and law, already becoming known and respected by the humanists of his era, including Guillaume Budé.

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

* 1632-Zuni Indians murder a group of Franciscan missionaries who had three years earlier established the first mission to the Zunis at Hawikuh in what is now New Mexico

The town was named after Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, a Franciscan missionary and the first European explorer in the region.

The first four films are historical dramas set, respectively, in the time of Christ, the U. S. Civil War, 16th-century Spain, and the late 19th-century South — the latter a fictionalized treatment of the life of Methodist evangelist, Robert Sayers Sheffey.

The first references to the term evangelist in Latter Day Saint theology were mainly consistent with how the term is used by Protestants and Catholics.

It is not known who first identified the term evangelist with the office of patriarch.

In 1984, when the first women began to be ordained to the office of evangelist – patriarch, the RLDS Church changed the title of the local Evangelist – Patriarchs to simply " evangelist ".

The evangelist divides history into three stages: the first ends with John the Baptist, the second consists of Jesus ' earthly ministry, and the third is the life of the church after Jesus ' resurrection.

* Rex Humbard ( 1919 – 2007 ) The first major TV evangelist ( 1950s, 1960s & 1970s ), and at one time had the largest TV audience of an evangelist in the U. S.

* October 30 – Bob Jones Sr, American evangelist, pioneer religious broadcaster, and founder and first president of Bob Jones University ( d. 1968 )

The wolf drives a Harley Davidson motorcycle, the first little pig is an aspiring guitarist, the second is a cannabis smoking, dumpster diving evangelist and the third holds a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University.

He was also involved in two other recordings in the late 1980s, the first in 1987 with jazz arranger Gil Evans, who placed Sting in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs ( the CD was not released in the U. S .), and the second on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way album, where Sting performs an unusual arrangement of " Murder By Numbers ", set to the tune " Stolen Moments " by jazz composer Oliver Nelson, and " dedicated " to fundamentalist evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

* 1823-Scottish Missionary Society workers arrive in Bombay, India ; Liang Fa, first Chinese Protestant evangelist, is ordained by Robert Morrison ; Colonial and Continental Church Society formed

The east atrium is historically important as the site of the first evangelist plays performed in Nahuatl starting in 1537.

His libretto Der für die Sünden der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesus ( 1712 ) was one of the first passion oratorios -- a free, poetic meditation on the passion story without the use of an evangelist character.

Liang Fa (; 1789 – 1855 ) was the first Chinese Protestant minister and evangelist.

William Ashley " Billy " Sunday ( November 19, 1862 – November 6, 1935 ) was an American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.

Evangelist Billy Graham was the first full-time evangelist of YFCI.

He welcomed Dwight L. Moody to Scotland, and the evangelist made his headquarters with him during his first visit.

World Vision was founded in 1950 by Dr. Robert Pierce (" Bob "), a young American evangelist pastor, who had first been sent to China and South Korea in 1947 by the Youth for Christ missionary organization.

Warner was an effective evangelist in the Winebrennarian church ( over 700 people responded to his altar calls during the first decade of his ministry ), preaching throughout northwest Ohio and northern Indiana for about six years.

Robert Reynolds Jones, Sr. ( October 30, 1883 — January 16, 1968 ) was an American evangelist, pioneer religious broadcaster and the founder and first president of Bob Jones University.

His first meetings as a full time evangelist were held in St Louis, Missouri in June 1946.

* Howard O Jones, Billy Graham's first African-American evangelist, author

* Billy Graham, evangelist, preached his first sermons as a licensed assistant / youth pastor at the Tampa Gospel Tabernacle of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in 1933-1937.