Meanings of franciscan monks in English

He therefore selected Franciscan monks to effect the conversion of the Indians.

He was born in Belgium, about 1640, and in due time joined the Franciscan monks.

The Franciscan monks had educated in their convent a young Indian chief, Enrique by name.

In A. D. sixteen hundred and ninety-two, a few Franciscan monks began to build a city.

There were eight of them walking in single-file, dressed in graphite-colored hooded robes, like futuristic Franciscan monks.

This phenomenon was discovered by the Franciscan monks, who go down from Ceja by the Rio Fragua to Caqueta.

In 1602 the Franciscan monks who discovered Nuevo Leon encountered in the neighborhood of Monterey numerous herds of these quadrupeds.

...The young Columbus received his education at the monastery of the Franciscan monks at Genoa.

To some it doubtless seemed like the old controversy between Augustine and Pelagius, like the contentions between Dominican and Franciscan monks.

The monastery, built in 1872, was home to Franciscan monks until it was abandoned in 1989.

There had been for some time both Franciscan monks and Dominican fathers on the mainland of South America, working among the natives.

The ruins of Catholic churches established by the Franciscan monks in the sixteenth century occur in several places, five being found around Jemez.

There had been Franciscan monks there earlier, but they had left in the mid-1950s and established themselves further south, between Solwezi and Kitwe.

In the place of Fra Francesco, who would not tilt with any but the master, two Franciscan monks appeared to tilt with the disciple.

It was originally occupied by the Franciscan monks, and it was here that, from 1284 to 1782, the Inquisition held its sittings.

In Armagoza, near Bahia, the Franciscan monks held, three or four years ago, a mission and sold about 1,000 of these Catholic Scriptures.