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Franciscans

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

11 dated entries naming Franciscans, drawn from 11 separate years between 1182 CE and 1536 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.

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12th century

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

13th century

  • 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
  • 1227October 10 – Daniel and companions, Franciscan martyrssource
  • 1236May 7 – Agnellus of Pisa, Italian Franciscan friar (b. 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

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

16th century

  • 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

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