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  • Ockham's razor is a principle attributed to the fourteenth century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Originally ...
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  • monument of the Emperor Maximillian in the Franciscan church at Innsbruck.]] Dietrich figures in a number of surviving works, and it must be assumed ...
    20 KB (2,964 words) - 18:00, 30 April 2023
  • fifteen, Servetus entered the service of a Franciscan friar by the name of Juan de Quintana, an Erasmian, and read the entire Bible in its original languages ...
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  • Spanish-sponsored Dominican and Franciscan mendicant orders entered Japan by way of Manila. Criticizing Jesuit activities in Japan, they actively ...
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  • I of Habsburg is elected the king in the Franciscan cloister ... * Franciscan Church, dating from 1297, is Slovakia's oldest church. ...
    38 KB (5,662 words) - 22:52, 20 November 2023
  • when addressing Muslims. A tertiary Franciscan, Lull was twice deported ... His meek demeanor greatly impressed a Franciscan hermit who was passing ...
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  • fleet of two hundred ships. His main ally was the Franciscan friar, Giovanni da Capistrano, whose fiery oratory drew a large crusade made up mostly of ...
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  • reunion with the Eastern churches, approved Franciscan and Dominican orders, tithe to support crusade, conclave procedures. *15. Council of ...
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  • century by the magnificent choir of the Franciscan Church, the church of the Nonnberg convent, and St. Margaret's Chapel in St. Peter's ...
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  • renewal. The Capuchins, an offshoot of the Franciscan order notable for their preaching and for their care for the poor and the sick, grew rapidly in ...
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  • *Franciscan Hermitage of Campello, Italy ===Nondenominational organizations opposing ecumenism=== *Independent Fundamental Churches of America ...
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  • takes a variety of forms. For example, the Franciscan orders have traditionally forgone all individual and corporate forms of ownership. However, while ...
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  • Marcos de Niza, a Spanish Franciscan, explored the area in 1539. The expedition of Spanish explorer Coronado entered the area in 1540–1542 ...
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  • when Gaspar de Portolà, together with Franciscan missionary Juan Crespi ... In 1771, Franciscan friar Junipero Serra built the Mission San Gabriel ...
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  • Pelagius (ca. 354 - ca. 420/440) was an ascetic monk, theologian and reformer from the British Isles who taught that human beings were free and ...
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  • vehement opposition was in response to the Franciscan monk Bernardin Samson, a papally-commissioned seller of indulgences who in 1521 appeared outside ...
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  • by Matthew J. O'Connell. (Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1974), 10. ... by Matthew J. O'Connell. Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1974. ISBN ...
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  • mystery set in a fourteenth century monastery. Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, aided by his assistant Adso, a Benedictine novice, investigates ...
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  • Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante, (c. June 1, 1265 – September 14, 1321) was an Italian and Florentine poet. His greatest work ...
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  • her body was returned to London for burial at the Franciscan church at Newgate. She was buried in her wedding dress. Edward's heart was interred with her. ...
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