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 re...

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 ...

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 re...