Franciscans

from 1517, group of three religious orders within the Catholic Church

33 dated entries naming Franciscans, drawn from 33 separate years between 1182 CE and 1797 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Franciscan, Franciscan Order, Franciscan friars, Franciscan order, Friar Minor in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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12th century

1182Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan Order (died 1226)source
1193Giovanni da Penna, Italian Franciscan priest (died 1271)source
1200Adam Marsh, English Franciscan scholar and theologian (died 1259)source

13th century

1209February 24 – The Franciscan Order is founded by the Italian priest Francis of Assisi. He and 11 of his followers journey to Rome where he receives approval of his rule from Pope Innocent III. Franciscan friars can not own any possessions of any kind. They wander and preach among the people, helping the poor and the sick. They support themselves by working and by begging for food, but they are forbidden to accept money either for work or as alms. The Franciscans work at first in Umbria and then in the rest of Italy. The impact of these street preachers and especially of their founder is immense, so that within 10 years they number some 5,000 followers.source
1223December 24 – Father Francis of Assisi (Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone), founder of the Order of the Franciscans with in the Roman Catholic Church, begins the tradition of celebrating Christmas with a nativity scene. Having received permission from Pope Honorius III, Francis arranges for a display in a cave near the Italian city of Greccio, with the representation of the events associated with the birth of Jesus Christ as described in the Gospel of Matthew and in the Gospel of Luke, using real people and animals.source
1224South Abbey, Youghal, the proto-friary of the Irish Province of the Observant Franciscans, is founded by Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Lord of Offaly, dedicated to St. Nicholas.source
1225June 10 – Pope Honorius III issues the bull Vineae Domini custodes in which he approves the mission of two friars to Morocco. The bull is reissued in October when Honorius III exhorts the Dominican and Franciscan order to participate in that mission.source
1226October 3 – Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan Ordersource
1230First records of the Franciscan Order in Ireland.source
1236May 7 – Agnellus of Pisa, Italian Franciscan friar (born 1195)source
1239March 20 – Gregory IX renews the excommunication of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, while he is at his court in Padua. Frederick responds by expelling the Franciscans and Dominicans from Lombardy.source
1240January 23 – Albert of Pisa, Italian Franciscan friarsource
1248Carrickfergus Abbey is founded by the Franciscan order.source
1260Grey Abbey in County Kildare was founded by William de Vesci. It was run by Franciscan friars.source
1268The Irish Franciscan friars establish a monastery in Multyfarnham.source
1293Approximate date – William of Rubruck, Flemish Franciscan missionary (born c.1220)source

14th century

1322December 8 – Pope John XXII issues the papal bull Ad conditorem canonum, permanently renouncing the doctrine that the Roman Catholic Church owns all of the properties of the Franciscan Order.source
1329Michael of Cesena is deposed as General of the Franciscans.source
1336The Franciscan order establishes in Carrick on Suir with the granting of land for a friary by the 1st Earl of Ormondsource
1392Franciscan friar James of Jülich is boiled alive, for impersonating a bishop and ordaining his own priests.source

15th century

1423Hélie de Bourdeilles, Franciscan, Archbishop of Tours and Cardinal, (died 5 July 1484)source
1427June 7 – Pope Martin V orders the Roman Catholic bishops of Portro and Alba to work on driving the Fraticelli faction of the Franciscan Order from Italy.source
1448The Franciscan friary Muckross Abbey is established in County Kerry.source

16th century

1520The Franciscan friar Matteo Bassi is inspired to return to the primitive life of solitude and penance, as practiced by St. Francis, giving rise to the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.source
1528July 3 – Pope Clement VII issues the bull Religionis zelus, recognizing the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (Ordo Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum), commonly known as the Capuchin monks, as a reformist branch of the Franciscans order of Roman Catholicism.source
1536January 6 – The Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, the oldest European school of higher learning in the Americas, is established by Franciscans in Mexico City.source
1585April – Roman Catholic recusants in Clonmel are betrayed and seized at Passion Sunday mass by troops of John Norreys, Lord President of Munster, and the celebrant, fugitive priest Maurice MacKenraghty, gives himself up, is immediately tried under martial law as a traitor, and executed. His head is set up in Clonmel market place and his body buried behind the high altar of the Franciscan convent.source
1589April 26 – Benedict the Moor, Italian Franciscan friar and saint (born 1526)source
1597February 5 – Gonsalo Garcia, Portuguese Franciscan and Roman Catholic priest, missionary, martyr and saint (born 1557)source
1599April 17 – Patrick Fleming, Franciscan ecclesiastical scholar (died 1631)source

17th century

1636Compilation of the Annals of the Four Masters is completed by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, assisted by Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire and Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain, in the Franciscan friary in Donegal Town under the patronage of Fearghal Ó Gadhra.source
1663January 1 – the Franciscan chapel in Cook Street, Dublin, is raided by the military.source

18th century

1797Mission San José (California), the fourteenth historic Spanish mission located in the present-day city of Fremont, California by the Franciscan order on June 11, 1797.source