Observants

The first were called Observants, the second Conventuals.

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

An autonomous branch of the first Franciscan Order, the other branches being the Friars Minor simply so called (but until lately usually known as Observants or Recollects), and the Conventual Friars

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

This division of the first Franciscan Order has come about by reason of various reforms; thus the Observants were a reform which separated from the Conventuals, and the Capuchins are a reform of the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

At the age of twenty he received the habit of St. Francis at Greenwich, in the church of the Friars Minor of the Regular Observance, called for brevity's sake "Observants".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

As the monti spread, so did the plan to remove the Jews.104 As Nelson puts it, “The Brotherhood of Man was the banner under which anti-Semitic friars, especially of the Franciscan Observants, cloaked their demagogic appeals to expel the Jewish pawnbrokers.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

As the monti spread, so did the plan to remove the Jews.104 As Nelson puts it, “The Brotherhood of Man was the banner under which anti-Semitic friars, especially of the Franciscan Observants, cloaked their demagogic appeals to expel the Jewish pawnbrokers.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

The seed sown by these friars was cultivated by twelve Franciscans of the Order of Observants.

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The Carthusians, Brigittines, and Observants who had been induced to give way on the question of the Oath reverted to the position of More and Fisher.

England under the Tudors

Observants refused submission altogether, and were dissolved.

England under the Tudors

Constitution "Felicitate quadam," in 1897 joined all the Observants into one family, giving them again the most ancient and beautiful of their names, the Friars Minor.

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922