Franciscans

prosperity of France as she was fundamental in the victory of the Hundred Years’ War. Charles and his army were meagre in numbers and despairing at heart, but Joan managed to inspire and transform the army with her ambitions. Gunpowder In 1954, a Franciscan monk named Roger Bacon…

continued to work in France until he founded the Dominican order. While he was in France, Virgin Mary came to him and gave the concept of the Rosary. Near this time, he encountered Francis of Assisi. This relationship can still be found between the Franciscans and the Dominicans in the church today. The Dominicans were largely responsible for spreading the Rosary through the Roman Catholic Church.…

This officer while working the Lake County DUI Task Force observed a red Jeep displaying an expired Illinois License Plate A848254. This officer ran a records on the license plate and confirmed the plate was expired. This officer conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle and detained it in the 5200 block of west Ridge Rd. This officer approached the vehicle and contacted driver who identified himself as Raymond Munoz and a passenger. This officer asked Munoz for his driver's license and he…

computer screen to document something unimportant to the patient but, required by someone far removed from the exam room,” said cassidy. At the committee meeting, Boyd Uindell washington, MD, President of the Franciscan Medical Group and Chief medical information of ficer of the Franciscan Missionaries of our lady Health System in Baton Rouge, increased data entry and documentation bordens on…

challenge the French architecture, also with small windows, one example is the magnificent, Basilica of San Francisco, located in Assisi. The fresco painting on the walls was also an important characteristic of this period. Also, its desire to evoke the Franciscan connection with poverty influenced the architecture. Simply but magnificent is the definition for this basilica. Although the Basilica of San Francisco had the gothic style impregnated in other characteristics including its arches, it…

in 1531. On October 12, 1945, Pope Pius the XII named her “Patroness of all the Americas”. The Our Lady Of Guadalupe Basilica is located in Mexico city and is the most visited Catholic shrine in the world. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún was a Franciscan missionary priest, who helped in the Catholic evangelization of New Spain. He was born in Sahagun in 1499 and studied Aztec culture, history and belief for 50 years. He earned the title as “the first anthropologist” for his work…

Growing up and going to school in California it has become quite common to hear about the California missions since a young age. These missions are described as positive institutions and in a way we are taught to praise them as we recreate them with models. But the truth is, these missions weren’t exactly what we are taught. Instead they are a place where constant torment and violence also took place and changed the lifes of many people, especially Indigenous people. In his short film Neemkomok…

In the essence of violent religious conversion, the Pueblo Indians demonstrated their greatest victory against Spanish control. Specifically, spanish missionaries and franciscan friars demolished the Native Americans’ opposing religious symbols in efforts to forcibly convert them to catholicism and potentially invade their land. The reaction to the violent act of conversion is especially reflected in the Declaration of Josephe, “ [...] burned the churches down and shouted in loud voices, “Now…

The Great Grandparents on Dad’s Mother’s side immigrated from Ireland during the Great Potato Famine when they were 18 and 19 years old. This was a time of tremendous hardship for many people in Ireland as the main agricultural crop; the potato failed badly for a number of years in a row. People in Ireland were found dead with green rings around their mouths as they ate grass in a vain effort to survive. Mothers and Fathers placed their faith and children on boats to America in an effort to…

actually takes place in the fourteenth century. Friar Lawrence is a Franciscan Priest and the Nurse is a servant to Juliet. There are many similarities and differences between Friar Lawrence and the Nurse. Friar Lawrence and the Nurse are similar in that they both play parental roles for Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence plays a fatherly figure to Romeo, whereas the Nurse plays a motherly role to Juliet. One quote that…