This was the first group of Franciscan brothers to settle in the United States.

Monday is all consecrated to one only congregation (cofradía), that of the Franciscan brothers.

Franciscan brothers are informally called friars or the Minorites.

A group of Franciscan brothers is broadening its crusade against "sin products," taking aim at the media companies that sell advertising time and space.

The Franciscan brothers came in 1980 at Mawkasiang and established a school and boarding to take care of the poor village children.

It became a Franciscan brothers' residence in 1961, in conjunction with their operation of St. Francis College.

La Rábida is where Columbus sought the aid of the Franciscan brothers in advancing his project of discovery.

The five Franciscan brothers in the boxy, red-brick friary distribute clothing and food, including vegetables they grow in plots around the friary.

A group of Franciscan brothers from Saxony purchased the land from the owner of a castle in the southern Limburg region of the Netherlands.

More than 100 Franciscan brothers, priests and altar boys greeted the Latin Patriarch's procession to Jerusalem, but only a Boy Scout band took part in the march.

The apse holds the precious wooden choir, carved by Franciscan brothers starting in 1689, the papal cathedra (with bas-reliefs by E. Manfrini) and the papal altar.

Franciscan brothers were missionaries to the Timucua and Guale Indians along the coast, whose territory included the Sea Islands in Georgia and up to the Savannah River.

Franciscans International is a Non-governmental organization (NGO) with General Consultative status at the United Nations, uniting the voices of Franciscan brothers and sisters from around the world.

He had, besides, a secret admiration for his rivals the Jesuits because they had progressive ideas; they were not like other religious groups, including the majority of his Franciscan brothers, who made a virtue of ignorance.

When Francis of Assisi stumbled upon a small house that his Franciscan brothers had fashioned for themselves, he became enraged at what he saw as their luxurious lifestyle, clambered onto the roof and began tearing the building apart.

Half an hour earlier, the line of seminarians, deacons, Franciscan brothers, parish priests, bishops and archbishops that walked two by two into St. Patrick's swarmed chaotically inside the New York Palace Hotel across Madison Avenue.

The Franciscan brothers rejoiced when the Vatican plucked one of their own, a modest Capuchin friar, to lead the church in Boston, the most troubled archdiocese in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.

At the Rábida Monastery in Palos de la Frontera near Huelva, Christopher Columbus sought the aid of the Franciscan brothers, hoping to enlist them as advocates for his scheme to launch a voyage of discovery.

With John Timon, the Bishop of Buffalo, he was also instrumental in inviting a group of Franciscan brothers from Italy, to minister to the growing Catholic population of Western New York and to teach at the new university.

He was educated at a Christian Gymnasium, where he completed his Abitur (university entrance examination) in 1916, and in 1917 he attended a course at the German Franciscan brothers' boarding school in Bleijerheide, Kerkrade, in the Netherlands.

Behind the main square and the church of San Martino, there is a canal where boatmen wait to take visitors to an inviting, cypress-clad island to the south, San Francesco del Deserto, the domain of the last surviving insular religious community in the lagoon, a monastery of Franciscan brothers.