Franciscan

A key pillar to the Roman Catholic Church are its Saints. Saints are men and women who are recognized by the Church to have had an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness to God and or Christ. There are many hundreds of Saints within both the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church and Coptic Churches. The writing of the history and great acts of saints is called a Hagiography, literally meaning sacred writing. Of the many hundreds of saints, a few stand out in the history, Saints like…

Mongol Empire was the greatest empire ever. Its region reached out from the Yellow Sea in eastern Asia to the outskirts of eastern Europe. At different times it included China, Korea, Mongolia, Persia (now Iran), Turkestan, and Armenia. It additionally included parts of Burma, Vietnam, Thailand, and Russia. The Mongols, who inevitably got to be known as the Tatars, were the most barbaric victors of history. Be that as it may, this incredible realm helped build contacts between people groups…

World War II was a devastating time for many people. Auschwitz is only one place that holds many stories of terror from many people. Auschwitz made people vulnerable and made it hard for people to overcome their terrors after the war. Three stories that explain the terror and the aftermath of Auschwitz are Elie Wiesel, Zuzana Ruzickova, and Maximilian Kolbe. It is evident that Hitler was the reason WWII had begun. Concentration camps were places to send people for forced labor and to expand…

What Franciscan value did you demonstrate while caring for your patient? Responsible stewardship: During my shift, I cared for my patient and also educated her on some of her prescribed medication. In addition, I educated her about the use of nonpharmacological…

Johann Gutenberg also known as Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden Gutenberg was an amazing, German man in the world of science. He is well known for the invention of the printing press, but he was also a blacksmith, goldsmith, and publisher. He developed many items in the 1400’s such as the use of oil-based ink and printed several books. Most of Johann Gutenberg’s early life is a mystery, but we do know some information about him. He was born in 1398 in Mainz, Germany. Gutenberg was the youngest…

The Franciscan emissary named John of Plano Carpini had multiple accounts of these tactics. He describes them in a compendium of letters and narratives titled The Mongol Mission as follows, “ If the position of the fortress allows it, they surround it, sometimes…

This conversion of faith was not greeted with grateful delight the settlers might have thought a savage people would portray when confronted with being saved, but rather angry rebellion. The building of religious capital started in 1524 a group of Franciscan friars, representatives for the twelve apostles, set up a meeting with the high ranking Priests, and political leaders to talk about converting from their beliefs to Christianity (OTP S1-5). The friars, like many of the religious leaders,…

1317, along with other decrees of Clement V (who died before these decrees were promulgated) issued the Clementines, "Corpus Juris Canonici." These decrees issued included addressing the meanings of poverty vows taken by the minor order of the Franciscans, as well as other practices of religious orders and third order…

Before Europeans had ever set foot on North America the mainland was a tremendous area made up of different Native American countries that had their own particular unmistakable societies, history and societal progressive systems. The Natives here had the majority of the angles that people everywhere throughout the world consolidated into their social orders. They had societal structures, exchange courses and connections between different Native gatherings and were in no way, shape or form a…

regal thinking are illustrated by the fable, THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES by Hans Christian Andersen. One of the best-known physics examples of regal science is Aristotle’s geocentric solar system from the 4th century B.C. The strategy was simple enough and the original model was as simple as possible. It was, in fact simpler than today’s models. However, the narrative was barren. As the data became more precise, the necessary adjustments to the model became more complicated. Four hundred…