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  2. Mendicant orders - Wikipedia

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    Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans) founded 1209 [2] Order of Preachers (Dominicans) founded 1216 [3] Order of Saint Augustine (Augustinians) founded in 1244 [4] Other mendicant orders recognized by the Holy See today are the Order of the Most Blessed Trinity (Trinitarians) sometimes called the Red Friars, founded 1193

  3. List of missionaries to New Spain - Wikipedia

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    1 Augustinians. 2 Carmelites. 3 Dominicans. 4 Franciscans. 5 Jesuits. 6 Mercedarians. ... This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2024)

  4. Catholic Church and the Age of Discovery - Wikipedia

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    In 1524, Franciscan missionaries known as the Twelve Apostles of Mexico arrived in what is New Spain, followed by the Dominicans in 1526, and the Augustinians in 1533. [23] They worked hard to convert the Indians and to provide for their well-being by establishing schools and hospitals.

  5. Catholic missions - Wikipedia

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    During the Age of Discovery, the Roman Catholic Church established a number of missions in the Americas and other colonies through the Augustinians, Franciscans, and Dominicans in order to spread Catholicism in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other indigenous people.

  6. Friar - Wikipedia

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    Today the Friars Minor is composed of three branches: the Order of Friars Minor (Brown Franciscans), Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (Brown Friars with long pointed hoods) and the Order of Friars Minor Conventual wearing grey or black habits (thus known as Grey Friars). In the Franciscan order, a friar may be an ordained priest or a religious ...

  7. Spanish missions in Mexico - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish missions in Mexico are a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans, Jesuits, Augustinians, and Dominicans to spread the Christian doctrine among the local natives.

  8. Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl - Wikipedia

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    The Earliest Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl (Spanish: Primeros Monasterios en las faldas del Popocatépetl) are sixteen earliest 16th-century monasteries which were built by the Augustinians, the Franciscans and the Dominicans in order to evangelize the areas south and east of the Popocatépetl volcano in central Mexico.

  9. Order of Augustinian Recollects - Wikipedia

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    The Secular Augustinian Recollects (together composed a body called the Secular Augustinian Recollect Fraternity or SARF) is the Third Order of the Order of Augustinian Recollects. Being a full member of the OAR Family, they share in the charism of the Order and in turn share in the graces bestowed upon the First Order and the Second Order .