All nine had youth, and many beauty too: Young friars round the place were oft in view, Who reckoned ev'ry step they took so well, That always in the proper road they fell.
If there was one rule rather than another on which the founder laid stress, it was that his army of friars should be absolute mendicants, keeping themselves sternly apart from all worldly entanglements.
At the end of the eighteenth century, the three Orders of Saint Francis numbered a hundred and fifteen thousand friars and twenty-eight thousand nuns.
The evil rose to such a pitch that he joined with the Recollets and the better-disposed among the colonists in sending one of the friars to lay their grievances before the King.
Friars and Jesuits, a Ventadour and a Richelieu, shaped her destinies.
They were robbed by feudal masters, and cheated and imposed upon by friars and pedlers; but a grim cheerfulness shone above their discomforts and miseries, and crime was uncommon and severely punished.
He tells us how monks and friars lived, not how they dreamed and speculated.
They are on the whole modest, but are the victims of friars and pedlers.
Chaucer only tells how monks andfriars lived, not how they speculated or preached.
The monks and friars opposed the new learning now extending from Italy to France, to Germany, and to England.
The fishers or divers are all Christians of the country, and all are permitted to engage in this fishery, on payment of certain duties to the king of Portugal, and to the churches of the friars of St Paul on that coast.
All the rest of the crew were drowned, to the number of about fifty persons, among whom were some friars and women, whom the English could not save.
The interior of Chirbury church is broad, spacious and lofty; for those Austin Friars loved a roomy church to preach in.
But unfortunately, as time went on, theFriars succumbed to temptation in its various forms, and degeneration set in amongst them as it had in the older orders.
The literature of the time shows plainly that monks and friars were losing hold on popular regard--although some of the best houses were still doing earnest work in study and in relieving distress.
In all wild parts divine service was neglected, and wandering friars or subtle Jesuits, supported by every patriotic or religious feeling of the people, kept Ireland faithful to Rome.
This Stephen or "Estevanico" was sent ahead by certain Spanish friars to the "Seven Cities of Cibola.
In 1538, when the axes and hammers of King Henry were busy over the face of the land, and bonfires of libraries were being made in the precincts of every monastery, the house and church of the Black Friars was saved.
The order of Black Friars owe their origin to the famous Dominick, notorious for his zeal in the persecution of the Albigenses.
Thanks to the pious efforts of the late Father Cassanova, the precious remains of Junipero Serra, together with those of three other friars of the mission, were discovered, identified, and honorably reentombed.
A hundred years later the Spanish friarsestablished their peaceful missions, and in 1776 the mission church of San Francisco was dedicated.
The fund was managed by the Convent of San Fernando and certain trustees in Mexico, and the proceeds transmitted from the city of Mexico to the friars in California.
Year after year acts were passed in the Mexican Congress so hampering the friars in their labors that they were at last crippled and helpless.
The general government had long been in financial distress, and had often borrowed--to put it mildly--from the friars in their more prosperous days.
The friarswere the first fathers of the land: they did whatever was done for it and for the people who originally inhabited it.
The two great orders of friars became an available power by virtue of their hold on the tastes and faiths of the people.
The two orders of friars became fierce enemies to each other and fought upon all occasions.
But these Poor Catholics were the precursors, if not the actual model of the Preaching Friars of St. Dominic.
It was only in 1255 that, after a severe struggle, the University was forced by a bull of Alexander IV to admit the Friars to its privileges, although it succeeded in imposing upon them an oath of obedience to its statutes.
The Cistercians certainly wrested the lead of the monastic world from Cluny, and until the advent of the Friars no other Order rivalled them in popularity.
At any rate, the friars were among the most enterprising of mediaeval travellers, and were the first to bring large portions of the Eastern world into contact with the West.
The first followers of Dominic included natives of Spain, England, Normandy, and Lorraine, and the Friars Preachers are soon found in every country of Western and Central Europe.
But Innocent died before Dominic had decided with his followers that they would place themselves under the rule of the Augustinian Canons; and it was from Honorius III that the Friars Preachers obtained the confirmation of their Order.
I believe all their friars were knocked on the head promiscuously but two; the one of which was Father Peter Taaff, brother to the Lord Taaff, whom the soldiers took the next day and made an end of.
When they made Capri's lights It redoubled their frights, And the friars all bellowed--"Tenemur!
The martyrdom of two Dominican Friars on the coast of Venezuela, through the avarice of the Spaniards.
The Martyrdom of two Dominican Friarson the coast of Venezuela, through the Avarice of the Spaniards.
For the Friars Minor of Padua this Marco painted a loggia which serves as their chapter-house; and at Pesaro he painted a panel that is now in the new Church of S.
He had the option of obtaining dignities both among the friars and in the world, but he despised them, declaring that he sought no other dignity save that of seeking to avoid Hell and draw near to Paradise.
His scenes abounded with figures, as may be seen from the embroidered border of the Cross that the Friars of S.
Caterina, a seat of the Preaching Friars in the same city, he executed two panels in distemper, which are known very well by the manner; and he also painted another in the Church of S.
In this picture are friars bewailing the death of their master, and it is a marvellous thing to see the beautiful expression of the sadness of lamentation in the heads, counterfeited with great art and resemblance to nature.
Maria del Monte, a seat of the Black Friars without Bologna, beyond the Porta di S.
Fermo Maggiore at Verona (a church of the Conventual Friars of S.
By the hand of Mino are certain works in marble at Naples, and a tomb at Monte Cassino, a seat of the Black Friars in the kingdom of Naples; the S.
His eyes strayed from the Abbey tower of the White Friars and the town battlements to a row of crosses which stood out against the sky upon a hill a little to the eastward of the town, and he clenched his fist, and shook it at the crosses.
You may eat, then,' says the abbot, and he turned to help the friars dig the hole.
In a moment thefriars lay about the altar steps, their white habits stained with blood.
The abbot and the friarscame to him in the morning, and bade him get ready to be crucified, and led him out of the guest-house.
And the young friars were mad to hear him, but when he had ended they grew angry, and beat him for waking forgotten longings in their hearts.
But meanwhile the friars nailed the gleeman to his cross, and set it upright in the hole, and shovelled the earth in at the foot, and trampled it level and hard.
The old friars were for pressing on, but the young friars would see him: so he did many wonders for them, even to the drawing of live frogs out of his ears.
One summer night, when there was peace, a score of Puritan troopers under the pious Sir Frederick Hamilton, broke through the door of the Abbey of the White Friars which stood over the Gara Lough at Sligo.
The coming of the Friars brought to the City still more sumptuous religious houses.
The house of the Augustine or Austin Friars was founded by Humphrey Bohun, earl of Hereford and Essex, in 1253; and the nave of the church has fortunately been preserved for use by the Dutch Protestant Church.
The settlement of the Crouched, Crutched, or Crossed Friars was nearly a century later.
Here the friars were amazed at the abundance and value of the gifts, which consisted of satin cloths, robes of purple, silk girdles wrought with gold, and costly skins.
Some suggested that the friars should be flayed alive, and their skins, stuffed with hay, sent to the pope.
Tartar hordes were then advancing through Persia towards the Holy Land, and to these, in the forlorn hope of checking their course, he sent as ambassadors a body of Franciscan friars composed of Father Ascelin and three companions.
This the Spanish friars defied, as they had that of his predecessor.
The Spanish mendicant friars from the Philippines were bolder in their work.
The Tartars, whom they had already irritated, broke into a violent rage, loaded the friars with fierce invectives, and denounced them and their pope as Christian dogs.
The friars were now placed in an embarrassing position by being asked what presents they had to give.
We put off in a skiff to meet the boat, with two Capuchin friars in long brown mantles and cowls, carrying rosaries at their girdles.
A large portion of the spoil was always dedicated to the Church, and the good friars were ever ready at the gate to hail him on his return and receive the share allotted them.
The prince and princess, the ladies of the court, and the prelates and friars who were present did the same, and the effect of the prayers of these illustrious and saintly persons was immediately apparent.
In place of such lewd rabble he introduced a train of holy friars to inspirit his people by exhortation and prayer and choral chanting, and to spur them on to fight the good fight of faith.
These holy friars had visited Rome in their journeying, where they had delivered the letter of the soldan to the sovereign pontiff.
Their banners were blessed by the holy friars whom he maintained in Alhama; and in this way success was secured to his arms and he was enabled to lay waste the land of the heathen.
While the holy Christian army (says Fray Antonio Agapida) was thus beleaguering this infidel city of Baza there rode into the camp one day two reverend friars of the order of St. Francis.
One of the good friars often preached to the people; he had a face well blossomed and carried his three chins and his paunch with no false modesty.
And the guests laughed like devils eating cutlets of Dominican friars and inquisitors' kidneys.
LIV In these days there came two Premonstratensian friars to Damme with indulgences for sale.
Conjointly with her husband Anna made several religious foundations, and greeted the Dominican and Franciscan friars as brothers in the Lord.
The attempt of the Franciscan friars to gain a foothold in Germany had at first been frustrated.
The staunch faith of the friars no less commands respect.
The friars had long been odious for their determined class feeling, religious intolerance, and encouragement of superstitions; it was obvious that the advocates of change would direct their attacks against them.
In England only the orders of friars of St Francis and St Dominic had houses for women attached to them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "friars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
