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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 ...11 KB (1,636 words) - 15:15, 15 December 2022
- Nayarit, Mexico). As such he had already sent out Friar Marcos de Niza and Narváez expedition survivor Estevanico on a voyage to the north, to New Mexico ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (1445 – 1517) was an Italian mathematician, educator, and Franciscan friar. He wrote one ...14 KB (2,158 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- ==="Friar's Heel" or the "Sunday Stone"=== The "Heel Stone" was once known as "Friar's Heel ...37 KB (5,831 words) - 02:27, 26 February 2023
- The last friar interred into the catacombs was Brother Riccardo in 1871, but other famous people were still interred. The catacombs were officially ...16 KB (2,439 words) - 14:27, 29 November 2023
- 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 ...9 KB (1,473 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- *Friar Lawrence: a Franciscan friar and Romeo's confidant. ... *Friar John: Another friar who is sent to deliver Friar Lawrence& ...57 KB (9,012 words) - 21:40, 16 April 2023
- 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 ...40 KB (6,382 words) - 17:02, 2 October 2023
- and instruments. He later became a Franciscan friar probably in 1253, after ten years of study that had left him physically and mentally exhausted. ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 02:30, 16 December 2022
- (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 ...24 KB (3,989 words) - 01:59, 8 September 2022
- , who also founded an order of friars, the Friar Preachers or Dominicans. ... *Friar Elias, Epistola Encyclica de Transitu Sancti Francisci, 1226. ...33 KB (5,300 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- Albertus Magnus (1193? -1280), a Dominican friar, and Thomas Aquinas criticized Averroes’ view of intellect. Bonaventure, of the Franciscan ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 14:38, 27 January 2023
- On the other hand, the Franciscan friar Ludovico Sinistari stated that incubi "do not obey exorcists, have no dread of exorcisms, show no ...10 KB (1,633 words) - 19:43, 28 February 2018
- William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings) (c. 1285 – 1347) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 15:21, 14 May 2023
- to preach. With an assistant, the friar Witmar, he made converts for six months at Birka on Lake Mälaren. They organized a small congregation ...11 KB (1,722 words) - 05:16, 31 July 2023
- Odoric of Pordenone, The Travels of Friar Odoric, translated by Henry ... not an indigenous honorific; for instance Friar Jordanus seems to use it ...29 KB (4,428 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 16:16, 6 November 2022
- Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Carmelite friar and priest, born at Fontiveros, a small village near Ávila. Best known for his introspective ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 08:11, 3 August 2022
- 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 ...35 KB (5,638 words) - 17:08, 16 August 2023
- Saint Giovanni da Capestrano, known as John of Capistrano in English (June 24, 1386 – October 23, 1456), was an Italian friar, preacher, theologian ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 19:54, 22 December 2022
- Capuchin monkey is the common name for the tropical New World monkeys comprising the genus Cebus of the primate family Cebidae, characterized ...13 KB (1,924 words) - 22:10, 25 November 2023
- Chastity is a virtue concerning the state of purity of the mind and body. Chastity includes abstinence from sexual intimacy for the unmarried ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 5 December 2023
- his translation, with assistance from Observant friar William Roy. In 1525, publication of his work by Peter Quentell in Cologne was interrupted ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- * The Sovereign Sun. Trans. Kinom Friar (Philadelphia, U.S.A. 1974) * Selected poems. Ed. E. Keeley and Ph. Sherrard (1981) ==Reference works== ...12 KB (1,487 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- banks of the upper Volga River; in 1237, a Dominican friar, Friar Julian, set off on an expedition to lead them back, and was sent back to King Bela with ...27 KB (4,287 words) - 22:42, 30 September 2020
- Abram broke into the Harrisons' Friar Park home in Henley-on-Thames ... #039;s co-gardeners at his eventual home, Friar Park. Sadly, tensions with ...35 KB (5,701 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- Albertus Magnus (1193/1206 – November 15, 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, was a Dominican friar who became ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- been a highly educated cleric there, or possibly a friar from a nearby monastery at Woodkirk, four miles north of Wakefield. It was once thought that ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 02:40, 11 March 2023
- that the Pope's hostility was due to the friar's outspoken invectives against papal corruption and to his appeals for a General Council ...30 KB (4,978 words) - 14:44, 18 July 2023
- controversy between the university and the Friar-Preachers about the liberty ... It should be noted that, as a Dominican Friar, Aquinas was supposed ...35 KB (5,231 words) - 18:38, 30 April 2023
- the Maritains’ spiritual advisor, a Dominican friar named Fr. Humbert Clérissac, introduced her to the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. So enthusiastic ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 08:31, 18 March 2024
- A monk (from Greek: monos meaning "alone") is a term denoting any male person who has taken religious vows of poverty and celibacy ...38 KB (6,105 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- Catholic Inquisition in Spain, with the Dominican friar, the converso Tomás de Torquemada, as the first Inquisitor General, the Catholic Monarchs set ...18 KB (2,888 words) - 19:02, 7 March 2024
- Francis a Sancta Clara, a learned Franciscan friar who became chaplain to Queen Henrietta; but it may have been strengthened by his known connection ...18 KB (2,949 words) - 02:26, 1 August 2022
- Ockham's razor is a principle attributed to the fourteenth century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Originally ...19 KB (2,872 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- The Books of Hours (Latin: Horae; English: Primer) The English term ("primer") is attested to in the [http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50188596 ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- story, as are his "merry men," including Friar Tuck and Alan-a-Dale. Scott's Robin Hood in Ivanhoe helped shape the modern notion of ...17 KB (2,589 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- It was by his order that Roger Bacon, a Franciscan Friar himself, was interdicted from lecturing at Oxford, and compelled to put himself under the surveillance ...20 KB (3,032 words) - 07:21, 17 November 2023
- Servetus entered the service of a Franciscan friar by the name of Juan de Quintana, an Erasmian, and read the entire Bible in its original languages from ...19 KB (2,991 words) - 17:09, 9 November 2022
- hundred ships. His main ally was the Franciscan friar, Giovanni da Capistrano, whose fiery oratory drew a large crusade made up mostly of peasants. Although ...19 KB (2,971 words) - 07:01, 8 April 2024
- 1495 and June of 1496. Michelangelo was touched by Friar Savonarola's preaching, moral severity, and his vision of renovation of the Roman Church. ...21 KB (3,322 words) - 17:11, 9 November 2022
- Bishop of St. Andrew's did commission a friar to write a first-hand account of Wallace's exploits, but the disposition of this manuscript ...21 KB (3,320 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- office of Father Domenico Paglia, a Dominican friar, who was one of the main antagonists of Bernini and his artisan friends, as a final salute and last word. ...23 KB (3,452 words) - 07:41, 24 January 2023
- spiritual direction from a Dominican friar. Around this time she met the French Catholic author Gustave Thibon, who later edited some of her work. ...23 KB (3,797 words) - 22:12, 29 January 2023
- set in a fourteenth century monastery. Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, aided by his assistant Adso, a Benedictine novice, investigates a series ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- meeting with Atahualpa. Pizarro sent de Soto, friar Vicente de Valverde and native interpreter Felipillo to approach Atahualpa at Cajamarca's central ...25 KB (4,083 words) - 04:54, 9 April 2024
- Ricardo Klement. With the help of a Franciscan friar who had connections with archbishop Alois Hudal, who organized one of the first ratlines, Eichmann ...27 KB (4,132 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- in 1219. In 1306 Fra Giovanni, an Augustinian friar, covered the whole with one roof. The internal partition walls remained till the fire of 1420 ...25 KB (3,594 words) - 06:14, 18 November 2022
- | Wife, Friar, Summoner |- | Fragment IV(E) | Clerk, Merchant |- | Fragment V(F) | Squire, Franklin |- | Fragment VI(C) | Physician, Pardoner ...31 KB (5,016 words) - 15:32, 30 April 2023
- in the High Middle Ages while Dominican Friar Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum Majus (1260) was the most ambitious encyclopedia in the late ...30 KB (4,429 words) - 15:48, 26 September 2023
