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  • Savonarola became a Dominican friar in 1474, and entered the convent ... on his death bed in 1492, and the Friar did attend. Eventually, Lorenzo ...
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  • Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (1445 – 1517) was an Italian mathematician, educator, and Franciscan friar. He wrote one ...
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  • ==="Friar's Heel" or the "Sunday Stone"=== The "Heel Stone" was once known as "Friar's Heel ...
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  • The last friar interred into the catacombs was Brother Riccardo in 1871, but other famous people were still interred. The catacombs were officially ...
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  • composed in 1415 C.E. by an anonymous Dominican friar, probably at the request of the Council of Constance (1414–1418, Germany).N.F. Blake, "Ars ...
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  • *Friar Lawrence: a Franciscan friar and Romeo's confidant. ... *Friar John: Another friar who is sent to deliver Friar Lawrence& ...
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  • who claimed they were authentic. This friar became famous for other alleged ... Francesco was drawn to the life of a friar after listening to a young ...
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  • and instruments. He later became a Franciscan friar probably in 1253, after ten years of study that had left him physically and mentally exhausted. ...
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  • (Eight-Precept Pig)and Shā Wùjìng (Friar Sand), who set out on an ... ), also translated as Friar Sand or Sandy. The third prince of the ...
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  • , who also founded an order of friars, the Friar Preachers or Dominicans. ... *Friar Elias, Epistola Encyclica de Transitu Sancti Francisci, 1226. ...
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  • Albertus Magnus (1193? -1280), a Dominican friar, and Thomas Aquinas criticized Averroes’ view of intellect. Bonaventure, of the Franciscan ...
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  • On the other hand, the Franciscan friar Ludovico Sinistari stated that incubi "do not obey exorcists, have no dread of exorcisms, show no ...
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  • William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings) (c. 1285 – 1347) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher ...
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  • to preach. With an assistant, the friar Witmar, he made converts for six months at Birka on Lake Mälaren. They organized a small congregation ...
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  • Odoric of Pordenone, The Travels of Friar Odoric, translated by Henry ... not an indigenous honorific; for instance Friar Jordanus seems to use it ...
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  • XXII as Pope and replaced him with a mendicant friar, Pietro de Corbara, raised by an imperial decree to the throne of St. Peter as Nicholas V after ...
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  • Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Carmelite friar and priest, born at Fontiveros, a small village near Ávila. Best known for his introspective ...
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  • with May Day festivities in England (as was Friar Tuck), but these were originally ... Golden Prize, Robin disguises himself as a friar and cheats two priests out ...
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  • Saint Giovanni da Capestrano, known as John of Capistrano in English (June 24, 1386 – October 23, 1456), was an Italian friar, preacher, theologian ...
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  • Capuchin monkey is the common name for the tropical New World monkeys comprising the genus Cebus of the primate family Cebidae, characterized ...
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