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单词 Franciscan
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Franciscan

/franˈsɪsk(ə)n /
noun
A friar, sister, or lay member of a Christian religious order founded in 1209 by St Francis of Assisi or based on its rule, and noted for its preachers and missionaries.Christian outposts founded by Dominicans, Franciscans, and Augustinians grew into towns....
  • The Franciscans, or Friars Minor, came to York c.1230; their first custodian had been personally associated with Francis of Assisi.
  • The new mendicant orders of Franciscans and Dominicans encouraged individual piety and with it the beginnings of affective religion - the empathetic experience of Christ's Passion through private meditation and prayer.

Divergences of practice led to the separation of the Friars Minor of the Observance (the Observants) and the Friars Minor Conventual (the Conventuals) in 1517, and to the foundation of the stricter Friars Minor Capuchin (the Capuchins) in 1529. The order of Franciscan nuns was founded by St Clare (circa 1212) under the direction of St Francis; they are known as ‘Poor Clares’.

adjective
Relating to or denoting St Francis or the Franciscans.Scientists are using brain imaging to pinpoint the circuits that are active and connecting when Tibetan Buddhists meditate and Franciscan nuns pray....
  • And you can buy your vegetables from a local market spread out below 13 th-century Franciscan cloisters.
  • During this uprising, known as the Pueblo Revolt, the Indians took the lives of Franciscan priests and Spanish soldiers and then besieged Santa Fe for several days.

Origin

From French franciscain, from modern Latin Franciscanus, from Franciscus 'Francis'.

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