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  2. Friar - Wikipedia

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    The Major League Baseball team San Diego Padres have the Swinging Friar ("padre" is also a Spanish word for the priestly title "father"; in 1769 San Diego was founded by Spanish Franciscan friars under Junípero Serra). The University of Michigan's oldest a cappella group is a male octet known as The Friars. [8]

  3. Augustinians - Wikipedia

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    In addition to these three branches, the Augustinian family also includes other groups: a) religious institutes, both male and female, formally aggregated to the order by a decree of the Prior General (this would include the Augustinians of the Assumption, the Sisters of St. Rita, etc.); b) other groups of lay Augustinians; c) lay faithful ...

  4. Catholic missions - Wikipedia

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    During the Age of Discovery, the 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.

  5. List of religious institutes - Wikipedia

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    Dominican Sisters of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin: O.P. St. Francisco Coll Guitart: Dominican: 1856 Dominican Sisters of the Immaculate Conception: O.P. Mother Maria Bialecka: Dominican: 1861 Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Name: O.P. Dominican: 1850 Dominican Sisters of the Queen of the Rosary: O.P. Dominican: 1888 E Elim ...

  6. 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

  7. Order of Saint Augustine - Wikipedia

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    The Augustinian Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus of the Philippines was officially formed on December 31, 1575. In 1575, under the leadership of Alfonso Gutierez, twenty-four Spanish Augustinians landed in the islands and, with the respective provincials Diego de Herrera and Martin de Rado, worked very successfully, at first as wandering ...

  8. Spanish missions in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    First the Franciscans set up parishes, then the Dominicans, Augustinians, and Jesuits followed. These orders are discussed in more detail previously in this article. To begin the process of constructing a new parish, the priests entered an indigenous village and first converted the leaders and nobles, called caciques. These conversions were ...

  9. List of missionaries to New Spain - Wikipedia

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    4 Franciscans. 5 Jesuits. 6 Mercedarians. 7 References. ... Augustinians Diego de Chávez y ... Dominicans. Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566) [3]