How To Use Friar In A Sentence
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In chantries unrehearsed we'd wow the votarists and serenade the friary to panting ecstasies while summoned to kingly chambers we branked the troubadours, turning the sovereign mind to heaven, the courtiers left speechless with neglect...
Strange Bedfellows
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Historically, orders of friars could not own property, and individual friars were beggars hence the term mendicant, although this was changed insofar as the orders were concerned by the Council of Trent.
No Uncertain Terms
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Each piece of tapestry from each school carries the names of town lands, mountains, rivers, lakes, castles, churches, friaries, wells, ringforts, and passageways.
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A significant look was exchanged between the devotees, but no words; the friar departed, and the nun, still silent, conducted her through many solitary passages, where not even a distant foot-fall echoed, and whose walls were roughly painted with subjects indicatory of the severe superstitions of the place, tending to inspire melancholy awe.
The Italian
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But it was restored as a chapel in 1662 by Charles II for his wife, Queen Catherine of Braganza, who established a friary in its grounds.
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Friars Cowle, which was so snottie and greazie, that good store of kitchin stuffe might have beene boiled out of it; as also a foule slovenly Trusse or halfe doublet, all baudied with bowsing, fat greazie lubberly sweating, and other drudgeries in the Convent
The Decameron
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A few months ago a friend sent me an article entitled "The Eucharist in the West" by the Irish Jesuit Michael McGuckian (New Blackfriars, March 2007), which also draws on De Lubac's work which had showed that prior to 1050 the term Body of Christ had referred to the Church and that the Eucharist had been referred to as the Mystical Body, but that that after this the Eucharist became the Body of Christ and the Church came to be referred to as the Mystical Body.
Orrologion
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As early as 1532, in a famous memorial meant for Clement VII, he called for the repression of the friars, priests, preachers, confessors, and books he saw as responsible for the spread of heretical ideas among the Italian populace.
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These two beat up Sancho when he tries to take some friars' frocks as battle spoils.
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At the age of 15 he entered the noviciate of the Capuchin Friars in Morcone, where on January 22, 1903 he adopted the clothing of Saint Francis and was called Padre Pio.
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These circumstances explain the important role of the new religious orders in these areas - the Augustinian canons regular and each of the four main orders of friars in Ireland, for example, and the Cistercians in Wales.
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The friars and their native assistants produced an immense number of grammars, dictionaries, catechisms, confessional manuals, sermon outlines, chronicles, and even religious dramas.
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They argued that the individual friars might still remain absolutely possessionless, even if the order had beautiful churches and comfortable monasteries.
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe
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Another group of monasteries grew up around friars who although taking the triple vow of poverty, chastity, and obedience were mendicants who moved about the country using any house of their own order as a base.
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The annual Franciscan Retreat will take place on Monday 24th May in the Capuchin Friary at 7.30 pm.
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During demolition work near Blackfriars he found two complete and forgotten prison cells.
Times, Sunday Times
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The friary was opened on November 13, 1952, with a small chapel in it for the use of the friars.
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There was a macramé hanging basket on the back veranda and the friarbirds were picking at the wool to line their nest.
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Early in the thirteenth century, the monastic map of western Europe was transformed by the emergence of the mendicant friars.
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The late Robert Brentano examines the interaction of the countryside and the city in terms of the mendicant friars who lived in and moved between both worlds.
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Straub spent more than a year living with Franciscan friars working in impoverished areas all over the world, including India, Jamaica, and the United States.
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But the most miraculous part of this panel is the predella, which is full of Friars of the said S. Catherine in the form of little figures.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo
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The countryside has changed little since Franciscan friars established the first of 22 missions in the area at the turn of the 18th century, and the native grapes were harvested for drinking at mass held by San Gabriel padres.
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The stone, striking the friar in the thigh at high speed, severed his femoral artery.
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The tour will start on the Victoria Embankment of the Thames, near Blackfriars Station, and pass the Houses of Parliament.
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On one occasion I set off from the friary to climb Muckish, but, a little later, the weather changed.
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Fr Tony Lester is a Carmelite friar and Prior to a community of Carmelite brothers who live in More House on Heslington Lane.
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When the governor learned this, irritated because his order of arrest had not proved effectual, he ordered the soldiers to be arrested who constituted the guard, and would have had them garrote the alferez Don Francisco de Rivera, who was in command at that gate, because they had not killed a friar and taken prisoner Don Pedro de Monroy.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, co
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They were the works of philosophers of the middle ages, such as Albertus Magnus, Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and the famous friar who created the prophetic Brazen Head.
The Birthmark
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Nicholas IV, himself a Franciscan, sent missionaries of the order to Servia in 1288, and another mission followed (1354) under Friar Bartholomew, Bishop of Trau.
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The bare-faced friarbirds are among these forest species.
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The friars inhabited the cloister, sang the matins, fasted and prayed within the walls and lived their lives in Banada six centuries ago.
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You say very true Gossip, replyed the Friar, and yet notwithstanding, doth not your Husband (both at boord and bed) enjoy the sweet benefit of your company?
The Decameron
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Reliques he had left behind him, I meane the Friars hood and Cowle, which shewing to their sister, and sharpely reproving her unwomanly behaviour: they left her in no meane discomfort, returning home to their owne houses, with their conquered spolle of the forlorne
The Decameron
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Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred; it is well allied: but it is impossible to extirp it quite, friar, till eating and drinking be put down.
Measure for Measure
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An observant traveller, unacquainted with the historical antecedents of the friars in the Philippines, could not fail to be impressed by the estrangement of religious men, whose sacred mission, if genuine, ought to have formed an inseverable bond of alliance and goodfellowship.
The Philippine Islands
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The Friar gives absolution for sins in exchange for money and flirts with the prettiest wives.
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Stephen Friar speculates that the wyvern entered British heraldry as the standard of the Roman cohort and later appeared as the "burning dragon" of Cadwallader (the origin of the red dragon of Wales).
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Friars Cowle, which was so snottie and greazie, that good store of kitchin stuffe might have beene boiled out of it; as also a foule slovenly Trusse or halfe doublet, all baudied with bowsing, fat greazie lubberly sweating, and other drudgeries in the Convent
The Decameron
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Four Recollet friars arrived at Quebec, marking the beginning of French missionary activity.
1612-15
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(The "bad Spanish friar" is a standard villain in our patriotic literature.)
Damned if you do. Damned if you don't.
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Born in late medieval Italy, Francis repudiated his life among the wealthy merchant class to espouse to himself Lady Poverty and live as a wandering begging friar.
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But according to these principles the Grey Friar ought to have left us enough to carry us through our journey.
Candide
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The annual mass will be held in the friary at 1pm.
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The house itself was built around 1750AD and the Friars of the Corpus Friary lived there after the Friary itself became inhabitable.
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Page view page image: ages, such as Albertus Magnus, Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and the famous friar who created the prophetic Brazen Head.
Mosses from an Old Manse
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This new form was provided by the mendicant orders, the friars - mobile missionaries whose international organization cut clean through diocesan and parochial boundaries.
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The powers of the friars were the fullest possible and enabled them to inquire into all matters touching the welfare of the Indians and to correct abuses, but they were not “governors” as has been supposed and stated by many writers, but rather overseers, charged to ensure the proper execution of the laws which had been enacted to protect the natives.
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings
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San Cristobal de las Casas: The name combines the city's patron saint, St. Christopher, with the latter part of the name of Chiapas 'first bishop, the beloved Dominican Friar Bartolome de las Casas (1484-1566).
Bob Schulman: Chiapas Runs Hot and Cold
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Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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I hold out the can to Ethelred the Cheap, a guy who's been banned from Ye Olde Friars Club for always deducting the assize from his bill before computing his tip.
At the Juvenile Bubonic Plague Telethon
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An excellent archer, he lived in Sherwood Forest with the fair Maid Marian, the stalwart Little John, the priest Friar Tuck, the musician Allan-a-Dale, and others who helped him rob rich landlords and thwart his chief enemy, the sheriff of Nottingham.
Robin Hood
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She gave a precise description of the place, and some time afterwards the writer found to his great astonishment an account by the Minorite friar
The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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This is the town where Padro Pio spent most of his life and is buried in the tomb in the friary.
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As the old woman had shrewdly guessed, it was a Grey Friar who stole
Candide
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An Oratorian father talking to the Dominican friars and a Dominican sister in the Oratory church.
Oxford Corpus Christi Procession 2009
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The monthly meeting of the Secular Franciscan Order will take place in the Capuchin Friary, Dublin St. on Thursday, January 29 at 7.30 pm.
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Now have I understood thee, quoth Panurge, my plushcod friar, my caballine and claustral ballock.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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But viewers will at first be led to believe that the friar is a tricksy, brooding character with more on his mind than simply helping the battle against the Sheriff of Nottingham.
BBC social engineering: BBC's black, high-kicking Friar Tuck annoys historians
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Friaries were occupied by friars, abbeys were headed by abbots, priories by priors.
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As all we who are bishops are informing his Majesty, those from whom that permission could with justice be taken away are the calced Augustinian friars; for this province of that order is very lax, and all who come from there become inactive, and most of them become traders, and skin the natives.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
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While scholars had already located several copies of the other two, the Abbotsford House book is the only known translation by Osbern Bokenham, the Augustinian friar and poet.
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Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican friar, and a theological giant.
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As the prayer evolved, so did the congregation, grappling with an issue that Reamer says goes to the very core of his mission as a Franciscan friar.
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Whatever fate now awaits him, the Friar-Tuck figure of Casey would find it physically hard to emulate the vicar.
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Among the religious orders, only the friars had a vocation that by its very nature embraced the seriously poor and, indeed, the utterly destitute in the regular course of events.
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i lived in 42c block with my mum, 2 brothers, and 2 sisters, i am the oldest my maiden name betty malone. did anyone go on country holidays with the blackfriars settlement. having visited this site brings back many happy memories i also remember going to jail park and chewing the leaves that tasted like vinegar. we moved to peckam in 1971
London SE1 community website
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Friar John singled him out of the whole knot of these rogues in grain, a red-snouted catchpole, who upon his right thumb wore a thick broad silver hoop, wherein was set a good large toadstone.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The friars and their native assistants produced an immense number of grammars, dictionaries, catechisms, confessional manuals, sermon outlines, chronicles, and even religious dramas.
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The word friar is to be carefully distinguished in its application from the word monk.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Some of the identifications were easy - Helmeted Friarbird, the two sunbirds, Dollarbird, Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove and Gray Crow, for instance.
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The Friar then busied himself with consoling the unfortunate woman, while Libertine busied himself with complimenting the exotic Gipsy beauty, and regaling her with stories of his wit and bravery.
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He will have to report to police twice a week and sleep at the friary, but will otherwise enjoy freedom of movement.
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Now, sirs, who hath seen our chaplain? where is our curtal Friar?
Ivanhoe
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Another object of horror I found between the great hall of judgment and the luxurious apartment of the chief jailer (primo custode), the Dominican friar who presides over this diabolical establishment.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Three hundred thousand gathered in St. Peter's Square over the weekend, there to witness the rise to sainthood of Padre Pio, a friar who bore the stigmata, that is the marks of crucifixion.
CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2002
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The videos here show Tenebrae from the priory of the Holy Spirit (Blackfriars) in Oxford.
Tenebrae at Blackfriars Oxford
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By this worthy frock of mine, quoth Friar John, thou hast a mind to slip thy neck out of the collar and absent thyself from the fight, thou white-livered son of a dunghill!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Moved by this experience and others, I soon found myself knocking at the door of the friary.
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Then I went to meet brother Dan in Blackfriars for a swift couple of Red Stripes before legging it to Kings Cross to get the train to Biggleswade.
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John Barton was the great benefactor who paid for the town's first schoolteacher and who later renounced his worldly goods and became an Observant Friar.
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One of the four great galliasses is already riddled with shot, to the great disarrangement of her “pulpits, chapels,” and friars therein assistant.
Westward Ho!
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A classic example was the Franciscan Observant friar Bernardino of Siena, whose cult of the name of Jesus, employing what were effectively magical tablets, sparked off accusations of heresy.
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Heere wanted but a Priest to joyne their hands, as mutuall affection already had done their hearts, which being sealed with infinit kisses, the Chamber-maide called up Friar Roger her
The Decameron
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‘Who are they,’ Francis lamented towards the end of his life, ‘who have torn my order and my friars from my hands?’
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He was a member of the Capuchin Order in the Friary Kilkenny.
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There, he advises that someone should recite the Credo continuously for a dying person, which was the customary practice of his fellow friars.
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Common hosts are friarbirds, the magpie-lark, and figbirds.
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The Franciscans' spirituality combined the Christian doctrine with the ideal of courtly joy as a trope for the friars' commitment to an interior life for the sake of divine plenitude.
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The stone, striking the friar in the thigh at high speed, severed his femoral artery.
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There was also a letter that Anselm the clerk carried, which Much, having searched the clerk, handed to friar Tuck to read.
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Segni, lib.i. p. 15, speaks clearly on the point, and says that the friar for this service to the city 'debbe esser messo tra buoni datori di leggi, e debbe essere amato e onorato da' Fiorentini non altrimenti che
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots
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At the end of the 15th century six houses of Observants were established, three being transfers from Conventual friaries.
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So I walked into Greyfriar's churchyard, found a quiet corner, sat next to some dead guy called Archibald and started digging into the back of my hand with anything sharp that was lying around.
Calmish Diary Entry
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The friary was an old brick building wedged between boarded tenements.
Underworld
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To the trecento Franciscan contemplating the images in the lower church, Judas represented a failed friar as well as a fallen Apostle.
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Out of forty perchers eleven are missing — yellow oriole, yellow fig-bird (SPHECOTHERES), black-backed magpie, black-headed diamond-bird, helmeted friar-bird, silver-eye, and the blue, pied, shining, white-eared and spectacled flycatchers.
Last Leaves from Dunk Island
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There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Friars
A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say
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He played the role throughout the series but his fellow pupils and the masters of Greyfriars School were portrayed by different actors during the show's long run.
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The Great Yarmouth Mercury reports here that a former furniture store, merchant's residence, pipe maker's shop, and Carmelite friary is once again being renovated and the workers have found it haunted.
The Haunted Friary
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Peter Ball, who represents residents in the Blackfriars area, strongly denies the claims and has sought legal advice.
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Spanish friars were called in to apply pressure.
Christianity Today
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St Giles is there as the tutelary saint of Baldung's patron, Canon Giles Haas, and may be a portrait of that dignitary, carrying his staff of office although dressed as a friar.
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They were horrible times — times in which there were monks and friars and graven images, which people kissed and worshipped and sang pennillion to.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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I bet you treat your vows no better than the old friars did, the lechers.
The Devil's Bedpost
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Since these friars lived on alms, they gravitated to the towns, where citizens were prosperous enough to support them.
RIDDLE ME THIS
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Jeanette Favrot Peterson did an excellent job analyzing murals done by Nahua artists for a Mexican friary.
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He wore one of those long brown monk habits accented with beads and rope, and sported a Friar Tuck-like haircut - the bowl cut.
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Friars Minor there is also mention of two kinds of custodes — one called custos provinciae, the other custos regiminis.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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Second, there has been the removal of proposed housing from the Blackfriars area.
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For instance, the Friar tells an aggressive story about a crooked Summoner, a sort of process-server, who runs a string of call-girls and operates a follow-up blackmail racket, relying on the threat of denunciation to the church courts.
Chaucer's Road Show Revisited
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I am a poor mendicant friar," answered the wounded man; "a strange gentleman gave me a zechin to --
The Ghost-Seer; or the Apparitionist; and Sport of Destiny
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In five minutes the great open space was as empty of living men as Greyfriars kirkyard on a weekday.
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And he answered: 'It was Friar Gomita, he of Gallura, vessel of every fraud, who had his master's enemies in hand, and did so to them that they all praise him for it: money took he for himself, and dismissed them smoothly, as he says; and in his other offices besides, he was no petty but a sovereign barrator.
Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
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The nearby forests are home to a wide variety of species including three species of friarbirds.
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They took communion; they recited the rosary (an increasingly popular devotion in this period); and they made their confessions, usually to a priest or a friar.
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These streets defined thirty-nine quarters for a town - New Winchelsea - intended to include a market, three churches, a friary, stone defences, and 700 houses.
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In accordance with the words of the rule, "Ut sint examinate et casta eorum eloquia", he was deeply convinced that the friars must announce to the faithful only well-grounded and authentic doctrine, in unambiguous and carefully sifted language.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Press_, where the peer and the commoner, the priest and the alderman, the friar and the swaddler, [2] can stretch themselves at full length, provided they be not too churlish, let us laugh at those who breed useless quarrels, and set to the world the bright example of toleration and benevolence.
Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
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And Ambrose Campany, a cheery-faced, middle-aged man, with booklover and antiquary written all over him, shockheaded, blue-spectacled, was there now, talking to an old man whom Bryce knew as a neighbour of his in Friary
The Paradise Mystery
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After a month long trial the jury at Blackfriars Crown Court took eight hours to return a unanimous verdict of not guilty.
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A man with a tonsure, much like the friars of old, poked his awkwardly shaped head out of the opening.
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The purchase negotiations became all the more complicated because, from 1893 onwards, the Religious Orders had sold some of their lands to speculators who undertook to form companies to work them; however, the friars were the largest stockholders in these concerns.
The Philippine Islands
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He opened his address by telling the old tale about a certain man in Ballyhaunis - in the not too distant past - who, on hearing the Angelus bell tolling from the Friary Hill, blessed himself.
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During demolition work near Blackfriars he found two complete and forgotten prison cells.
Times, Sunday Times
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Francis and the friars are costumed in simple gray habits (the chorus is dressed similarly).
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During demolition work near Blackfriars he found two complete and forgotten prison cells.
Times, Sunday Times
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Friaries were occupied by friars, abbeys were headed by abbots, priories by priors.
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Blackfriars-road, and after putting several questions to him about his instruments, related to him the cause of the counter-order; upon which
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828
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A friar was seated in the same car with the murderer, to whom he did not hesitate to repeat, under the seal of confession, the same false asseveration which he had made upon the place of combat, which charged the
The Fair Maid of Perth
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A native of England, Roger Bacon was a friar and scholar in many academic areas, including mathematics, early chemistry and optics.
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During the 1780s he was manager and principal promoter, as well as builder and architect, of the Albion flour mill at Blackfriars.
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Spanish friars were called in to apply pressure.
Christianity Today
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Juliet tells Nurse to tell her mother that she is going to Friar Laurence's cell to confess her sins and be absolved.
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The Friary boys had turned a two point deficit into an eight point lead in ten devastating minutes.
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Since preachers and friars blamed the vices and dissipation of the city for the defeat, the government reorganized not only its commercial infrastructures but also the external signs of its devotion.
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The family came to prominence when Francesco della Rovere, a Franciscan friar from an obscure noble family based in the far-flung Marche region, became Pope in 1471.
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The move has the blessing of the Franciscan community in Waterford who have commended the City Council on the proposal to move the Luke Wadding statue to Greyfriars.
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Special details within the church render it unique including the fifth century mosaics of the central nave, the triumphal arch dating back to the pontificate of Pope Sixtus III (432-440) and the apsidal mosaic executed by the Franciscan friar Jacopo Torriti at the order of Pope Nicholas IV (1288-1292).
The Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore
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Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The dinner will be held in a marquee in Friary Gardens, Richmond, with guests dressed in Victorian costume.
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During demolition work near Blackfriars he found two complete and forgotten prison cells.
Times, Sunday Times
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I hold out the can to Ethelred the Cheap, a guy who's been banned from Ye Olde Friars Club for always deducting the assize from his bill before computing his tip.
At the Juvenile Bubonic Plague Telethon
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The Baz Luhrmann version with Leonardo di Caprio and Claire Danes, set in contemporary L.A. The two leads are good - indeed Danes is absolutely fantastic - but pretty much nobody else is (apart from Pete Postlethwaite as Friar Lawrence), and the excellent music, direction and location settings (Venice Beach rechristened Verona Beach) have to compensate for the lousy performances.
Three more films
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The city boundaries at the height of the pre-Reformation period contained 40 churches, 9 chapels, 4 monasteries, 4 friaries, 16 hospitals, and 9 guildhalls for the various trades.
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Duke, who is disguised as a friar, that he (the Duke) was a notorious loose-liver -- "he had some feeling of the sport; he knew the service" -- the Duke merely denies the soft impeachment; but when Lucio tells him that the Duke is not wise, but "a very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow," the Duke bursts out, "either this is envy in you, folly, or mistaking: ...
The Man Shakespeare
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discalced friars
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Grey Friar, who stayed last night in the same inn with us at Badajos.
Candide
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What, for the original friars, was poignant about plainchant?
The Times Literary Supplement
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mendicant friars
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Chaucer's exact source is not known, but it is clear that the friar tells it to enrage the summoner on the pilgrimage, who interrupts the narrative and rejoins with a scurrilous and discreditable story about a friar.
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We have found a marvelous painting of a medieval bishop hanging outside of a friary near Warsaw, some of its back panels being eaten by worms.
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On his return to Canada he was accompanied by a Recollet friar, Father Louis Hennepin, and by
Canada
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An English Dominican friar named John Siferwas, he is also identified in the monumental missal commissioned for the Dorset abbey of Sherhorne at the beginning of the fifteenth century.
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Its congener is a report on Taino Indian beliefs, produced for Christopher Columbus by Ramón Pané, a Catalan friar on the island of Hispaniola.
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His bride embarked on the usual charitable activities associated with royal consorts, but with the benefit of a much livelier Rolodex: old chums like Sinatra and Bob Hope turned Monégasque fundraising galas into the touring version of the starrier Friars 'Club roasts.
A Gentleman, of a Kind
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At fifteen, he became a laybrother at the Dominican Friary at Lima and spent his whole life there — as a barber, farm-laborer, almoner, and infirmarian among other things.
St. Martin de Porres, religious
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When the first missionary friars arrived in what was then called New Spain, they decided to evangelize the indigenous peoples in their own languages.
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Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred; it is well allied; but it is impossible to extirp it quite, friar, till eating and drinking be put down.
Act III. Scene II. Measure for Measure
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In the spandrel above Saint George sits Saint Augustine, who appears as a hermit dressed in the habit of the Eremitani (also known as the Austin friars), wearing a scapular, his bishop's miter resting at his feet.
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And I had a wonderful conversation and a great visit with her at Friar Park, which is a magnificent Victorian manse that has incredible gardens.
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Nolasco: and therewith from Carmel mount the children of Elijah prophet led by Albert bishop and by Teresa of Avila, calced and other: and friars, brown and grey, sons of poor Francis, capuchins, cordeliers, minimes and observants and the daughters of Clara: and the sons of
Ulysses
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Brodrick, himself a former Augustinian friar, is a master of precision plotting, morally complex characterization, and crisp historical re-creation.
The 6th Lamentation: Summary and book reviews of The 6th Lamentation by William Brodrick.
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The Friars brotherly Companion, who had given sufficient enstructions to the Nurse, and a small purse full of Sisters white thred, which a Nunne (after shrift) had bestowed on him, upon the husbands admittance into the Chamber (which they easily heard) came in also to them, and seeing all in very good tearmes, they holpe to make a joyfull conclusion, the Brother saying to Friar Reynard: Brother, I have finished all those foure jaculatory prayers, which you commanded me.
The Decameron
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Joan, the Wandering Jew, the decuman or tenth wave, the blackness of negroes, Friar Bacon's brazen head, etc.
From Chaucer to Tennyson
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Since the word is derived from fraters, their dwelling places are properly called friaries or fraternities.
No Uncertain Terms
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Motilones ( "friars" -- Indians so named from their cropped heads); and it seemeth to me that this empire is reserved for her Majesty and the
The Discovery of Guiana
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Though Padre Pio would have preferred to suffer in secret, by early 1919, news about the stigmatic friar began to spread in the secular world.
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In her study of mendicant sermons on the Magdalen, for example, Katherine Jansen finds no real difference between the various orders of friars, all of which were actively encouraging their lay congregations to confess.
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Kenneth felt as if, in those wildernesses the waste and dry places in which the foul spirits were wont to wander when expelled the mortals whose forms they possessed, a bare-footed friar would have been a better associate than the gay but unbelieving paynim.
The Talisman
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The friar preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve.
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Behind the glass all of London turned over uneasily in the dark hours before dawn, and angels took to wing in St John's Wood and Blackfriars as somewhere a whitethroat began to sing.
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One street trader on Friargate, who wished not to be named, said legitimate traders were being affected by the litter left by touts handing out flyers and ‘chasing’ the public with clipboards.
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Art nouveau pelicans uphold the piers of Blackfriars Bridge, and high overhead stands the great iron badge of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway.
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Yorkshire's own outlaw, Robin Hood, was among the original hoodie wearers, alongside monks and friars who wore cowls.
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And at the sound of the sacring bell, headed by a crucifer with acolytes, thurifers, boatbearers, readers, ostiarii, deacons and subdeacons, the blessed company drew nigh of mitred abbots and priors and guardians and monks and friars: the monks of Benedict of
Ulysses
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Unions claim that de-skilling and pay cuts are being imposed by a group of construction firms and have been staging protests at building sites across the UK in recent months, including Sellafield in Cumbria, Grangemouth and Ratcliffe power stations and Blackfriars and King's Cross railway stations in London.
Student tuition fees protests – Wednesday 9 November 2011
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He also explains why the government closed down the friaries of the mendicant Dominicans and Franciscans--there was no money there because the friars were indeed living in poverty according to their rules--since the friars were preachers and teachers, urging the people to devotion and tradition.
Archive 2009-05-01
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He was in early life a Dominican friar, but broke from his order and left Italy to avoid prosecution for heresy.
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St. Mary's Abbey, or Friary, has not been deconsecrated.
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The Irish Catholic Directory lists more than 250 properties held by religious orders in the state, excluding schools, parish houses, friaries and monasteries.
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By now I've learned their loud call, which at first I thought must belong to a friarbird.
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They will readily refurbish the nests of mudlarks and friarbirds.
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Rabelais continually returns to the indolence and gulosity of the friars.
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When Lucio tells the Duke, who is disguised as a friar, that he (the Duke) was a notorious loose-liver ” “he had some feeling of the sport; he knew the service” ” the Duke merely denies the soft impeachment; but when Lucio tells him that the Duke is not wise, but “a very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow,” the Duke bursts out, “either this is envy in you, folly, or mistaking: ...
The Man Shakespeare
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Through telling the truth, a Grey Friar receives as alms from the Lord of Sedan two pigs instead of one
The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
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The friars seemed long since to have forgotten those noble aims that had meant so much to the founders and early workers of their orders, if indeed the great majority of those of the later day had ever realized the meaning of their office, for the Spanish writers of the time delight in characterizing them as the meanest of the Spanish peasantry, when not something worse, who had been "lassoed," taught a few ritualistic prayers, and shipped to the Philippines to be placed in isolated towns as lords and masters of the native population, with all the power and prestige over a docile people that the sacredness of their holy office gave them.
The Social Cancer
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During demolition work near Blackfriars he found two complete and forgotten prison cells.
Times, Sunday Times
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So the Fair Maid of Perth laid aside the splendid hawking glove which she was embroidering for the Lady Drummond, and putting on her holyday kirtle, prepared to attend her father to the Blackfriars monastery, which was adjacent to Couvrefew Street in which they lived.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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A 'knight' is a Christian artifact from a Christian culture just as much as a 'Kirtle Friar' is.
MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
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Did you laugh down the phone to Mr Bank Manager & tell him his missus is Friar-Tucked?
Friday Night In Out-Patients « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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I am constrained to advise that the terms friar and monk are not synonymous, and that a friar does not inhabit an abbey.
No Uncertain Terms
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Such language, even coming as it was from the mouth of a Dominican friar, was bound to get Savonarola in trouble.
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The former apse, with its rich mosaics and stained-glass windows, was left standing, partly for nostalgic reasons, partly to hide the friary, which would have looked unsightly without it.
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He was also taken by paramedics to the Friarage and was suffering from knee, ankle and facial injuries.
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For the Church of the Badia of Florence he made a very beautiful S. Jerome; and he began a Deposition from the Cross for the high-altar of the Friars of the Nunziata, but only finished the figures in the upper half of the picture, for, being overcome by a most cruel fever and by that contraction of the throat that is commonly known as quinsy, he died in a few days at the age of forty-five.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo
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A dance performed in ostentatious costumes, usually representing characters from the Robin Hood tradition such as Maid Marian and Friar Tuck.
Annotations To The Text of _Wat Tyler_
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The preacher at the Cross that day was a Black Friar -- a tall spare man, whom some might call gaunt and ungainly; a man of quick intelligence and radiant eyes, of earnest gesture and burning words.
For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary
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And the friar bade him beware, for such as despaired (he said) died miserable.
Tales from Shakespeare
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Irish Augustinian friars and Irish Franciscan Recollet priests spearheaded this ministry; Presentation Sisters from Galway and the Sisters of Mercy from Dublin arrived in the colony in 1833 and 1842, respectively, to educate Catholic girls; and the Irish Christian Brothers came out to teach Catholic boys in 1875.
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