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Franciscan Orders

Filed in archive Information on July 27, 2010

Franciscan Orders
The term Franciscan is used to refer to members of Catholic religious orders, founded by Saint Francis of Assisi. He founded three Franciscan orders - the Friars Minor, the Poor Ladies or Clares, and the Brothers and Sisters of Penance. These orders are generally referred to as the First, Second and the Third orders of St. Francis. Below is a brief description of the Franciscan order history.
First Order-The existence of the Friars Minor or first order properly dates from 1209, in which St. Francis obtained an unwritten approbation of the simple rule he had composed for the guidance of his first companions.
Second Order- The foundation of the Poor Ladies or second order may be said to have been laid in 1212.
Third Order- The year 1221 is the date of the foundation of the Brothers and Sisters of Penance, now known as secular franciscans. This third order was devised for those who were debarred by marriage or other ties from entering either the first or second order.

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New Franciscan Exec Director at Mission San Luis

Filed in archive Franciscan Friars on July 21, 2010

New Franciscan Exec Director at Mission San Luis
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Father David Gaa has been formerly announced as the new Executive Director of Mission San Luis Rey. The Mission is operated by the Franciscan Friars of the Province of Saint Barbara, and it is well renowned as a National Historic Landmark founded in 1798.

As the new Executive Director of this Franciscan establishment, Father David Gaa is responsible for the overall strategic plan, activities and operations of Mission San Luis Rey. Father David has tremendous experience as a leader, having lived 7 years as a Franciscan friar in Kazakhstan, where his ministry was located in the town of Taldykorgan. He's also worked as a Franciscan in Arizona, where his expertise lies in fundraising money for renovations of a local school while respecting the Native American traditions of the area.

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Franciscan- A literary Order

Filed in archive Franciscan Friars on June 17, 2010

Franciscan- A literary Order
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As a literary order the Franciscans have chiefly been eminent in theological sciences. The great school of Scotists takes its name from John Duns Scotus, Fransiccan friars, and it has been the pride of Franciscan order to maintain his distinctive doctrines both in philosophy and in theology against the rival school of Thomists, to which the Dominican Order gave its allegiance. In the Nominialistic controversy the Thomists were for most part Conceptualists; the Franciscan adhered to rigid Realism. In the Free- will question the Francisans strenuously resisted the Thomist doctrine of 'predetermining decrees'.
Indeed all the greatest names of the early Scotist school are the Franciscans, St. Bonaventure, Alexander of Hales and William Ockham, the latter two like Scotus himself theologians. The single name Roger Bacon, the marvel of medieval letters, the divine, the philosopher, the linguist, the experimentalist, the practical mechanician, would in itself have sufficed to make the reputation of his order.

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Franciscan Friars History

Filed in archive Franciscan Friars on June 16, 2010

Franciscan Friars History
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Franciscans are also called Minorites or Lesser Brethren, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1208 by St. Francis of Assisi. Some idea of the extra ordinary extension of the remarkable institute may be formed from the startling statement that, in the dreadful plague of the Black Death in the following century, no further from 124000 Franciscans fell victims to their zeal for the care of the sick and for the spiritual ministration of the dying.
In the original scheme of the institute its great fundamental characteristic was poverty, which St Francis proposed to render in his order not only more perfect theoretically but more systematic in its practice. The Franciscans order has been the parent of many other religious institutes. The earliest of these is that of the 'observantists' or brethren of more strict observance called in France Cordeliers. Fran Franciscans history we find that the Franciscan order in its several branches has all time maintained its popularity in Roman Catholic Church. The popes Nicholas IV, Alexander V, Sixtus IV, the still more celebrated Sixtus V and Clerment XIV also belonged to the institute of St Francis.

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The Vatican History

Filed in archive Information on May 20, 2010

The Vatican History



Vatican City was established in 1929. The Lateral treaty in 1929 which brought the city state into existence spoke of it as a new creation (Preamble and Article III) not as a vestige of the much larger Papal States (756-1870) that had previously encompassed central Italy. Most of the territory was absorbed into the kingdom of Italy in 1860, and the final portion, namely the city of Rome with a small area close to it, ten years later in 1870. Vatican City is ecclesiastical or sacerdotal- monarchial state ruled by the Bishop of Rome- the Pope.

It is the sovereign territory of the "Holy See" ( Saneta Sedes) and the location of the Pope's residence, referred to as the Apostolic Palace. The Popes have resided in the area that in 1929 became Vatican City, since the return from Avignon in 1377. Previously they resided in the Lateran palace on the opposite side of Rome, which Constantine gave to Pope Miltiades in 313. The chief Papal collections are contained in the galleries attached to the Vatican, the largest palace in the world. The walls of the Sistine Chapel, built in 1473 by Sixtus IV, are covered with magnificent frescoes while Michelangelo painted the ceiling and the 'Last Judgment' on the end wall.

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