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Christmas Carols

Songs for religious and secular Christmas carolers alike by Liz Olson Related Links Christmas TraditionsChristmas Traditions SlideshowA History of the New YearWinter Holidays by…

Brewer's: Friars Minor

(Fratres minores). The Franciscans. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Friar's TaleFriars Major A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V…

Brewer's: Mendicants

The four orders are the Jacobins, Franciscans, Augustinians, and Carmelites (3 syl.). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894MendozaMenamber A B C D E F G H…

Bacon, Roger

(Encyclopedia) Bacon, Roger, c.1214–1294?, English scholastic philosopher and scientist, a Franciscan. He studied at Oxford as well as at the Univ. of Paris and became one of the most celebrated and…

The Swallows of San Juan Capistrano

Back from winter vacation in Argentina by Gerry Brown The interior of the San Juan Capistrano mission. Related Links San Juan CapistranoswallowJunipero SerraThey're on their way…

Brewer's: Grey Friars

Franciscan friars, so called from their grey habit. Black friars are Dominicans, and White friars Carmelites. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Grey HenGrève…

Brewer's: Friar Tuck

Chaplain and steward of Robin Hood. Introduced by Sir Walter Scott in Ivanhoe. He is a pudgy, paunchy, humorous, self-indulgent, and combative clerical Falstaff. His costume consisted of a…

Brewer's: Friars

[brothers ]. Applied to the four great religious orders —Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians, and Carmelites. Later, a fifth order was added—that of the Trinitarians. The first two were…

Brewer's: Minories

(3 syl.) (London). The cloister of the Minims or, rather, Minoresses (nuns of St. Clare). The Minims were certain reformed Franciscans, founded by St. Francis de Paula in the fifteenth…