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black friars
Dominican Do*min"i*can, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.
Black friar
Black friar Black" fri`ar (Eccl.) A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.

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- ideal emerged two orders of mendicant friars – one, the Friars Minor, led by Francis of ****isi; the other, the Friars Preachers, led by Dominic de Guzmán...
- A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders in the Catholic Church. There are also friars outside of the Catholic Church, such as within the Anglican...
- The Black Friar is a Grade II* listed public house on Queen Victoria Street in Blackfriars, London. It was built in about 1875 on the site of a former...
- London Theatre Archive Digitised Posters and Flyers from the Second BlackFriars Theatre, held by the University of East London Shakespearean Playhouses...
- The Black Friars' Monastery, Svartbrödraklostret, also called the convent of Stockholm, was a Dominican monastery on the island of Stadsholmen (City Island)...
- consent of Pope Paul III to shut down the 1297-founded Dominican convent (Black Friars), southerly neighboured to the palace, to acquire the pertaining monastic...
- Ysgol Friars (Welsh for 'Friars School') is a school in Bangor, Gwynedd, and the second oldest extant school in Wales. The school was founded by Geoffrey...
- last coach for the Friars. The last game in Providence at Hendricken Field was on May 15, 1999 against Villanova, which the Friars won 7-4. Their final...
- Dominican Order, widely known as "Black Friars". For this reason, it has traditionally been called the "Black Friars Distillery", and this name appears...
- city's Chinatown. During the early years of the 13th century, orders of friars or mendicant brothers began to establish themselves in England. Newcastle...