Franciscan order
Catholic order of friars, Friars Minor or Grey Friars, founded in 1209 by Francis of Assisi. Subdivisions were the strict Observants; the Conventuals, who were allowed to own property corporately; and the Capuchins, founded in 1529.
The Franciscan order included such scholars as the English scientist Roger Bacon. A female order, the Poor Clares, was founded by St Clare in 1215, and lay people who adopt a Franciscan regime without abandoning the world form a third order, Tertiaries.
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