Meanings of mendicant orders in English

Nothing perhaps served the pope better now than the agency of the mendicant orders.

The mendicant orders derive their whole subsistence from such oblations.

The mendicant orders are like those teachers whose subsistence depends altogether upon their industry.

While, from the mystics of that date, valuable works have been preserved, what has been left us from these mendicant orders?

One observing the duties of the mendicant orders should restrain one's senses and the mind even like a tortoise withdrawing its out-stretched limbs.

In that country the preachers are not like our mendicant orders of friars-theyhave two or three suits of clothing, and they wash sometimes.

Those of 1479 appealed against the Mendicant Orders and against the appointment of foreigners.

He hated the monks, and even the Mendicant Orders.

The Success of the Mendicant Orders.

Thus in 1523 he recommended the conversion of the cloisters of the Mendicant Orders into schools 'for boys and girls.'

Such was the effect of the Crusades in the twelfth century, and of the foundation of the Mendicant Orders in the thirteenth.

Having elevated monasticism to the zenith of its power, the Mendicant orders, like all the other monastic brotherhoods, entered upon their shameful decline.

34 The rival mendicant orders, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, acquired great riches and power by the traffic in indulgences.