- Francis Of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi was a Roman Catholic friar and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans. - Anthony Of Padua
Saint Anthony of Padua, also venerated as Saint Anthony of Lisbon, is a Catholic saint who was born in Lisbon, Portugal, as Fernando de Bulhões to a wealthy family and who died in Padua, Italy. - Duns Scotus
Blessed John Duns Scotus (c. 1266 - November 8, 1308) was a theologian, philosopher, and logician. Some argue that during his tenure at Oxford, the systematic examination of what differentiates theology from philosophy and science began in earnest. He was one of the most influential theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages, nicknamed "Doctor Subtilis" for his penetrating manner of thought. - Clare Of Assisi
Saint Clare of Assisi, born Chiara Offreduccio (July 16, 1194 - August 11, 1253) was an Italian saint, one of the first followers of Francis of Assisi and founded the Order of Poor Ladies to organize the women who chose to embrace monastic life in the Franciscan vision. - Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon (c. 1214–1294), also known as Doctor Mirabilis, was one of the most famous Franciscan friars of his time. An English philosopher who placed considerable emphasis on empiricism, he was one of the earliest European advocates of the modern scientific method. Later studies have emphasised his reliance on occult and alchemical traditions. - William Of Ockham
William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings,) (c. 1288 - c. 1348) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, from Ockham, a small village in Surrey, near East Horsley. He is considered, along with Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, one of the major figures of medieval thought and found himself at the center of the major intellectual and political controversies of the fourteenth century. - Maximilian Kolbe
Maximilian Kolbe, also known as Maksymilian or Massimiliano Maria Kolbe and "Apostle of Consecration to Mary," born as Rajmund Kolbe, was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland. He was canonized by the Catholic Church as Saint Maximilian Kolbe on October 10, 1982 by Pope John Paul II, and declared a martyr of charity. - Richard Rohr
Richard Rohr O.F.M. (born in 1943 in Kansas) is a Franciscan priest, writer, and internationally known inspirational speaker. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1970. Rohr was the founder of the New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1971 and the "Center for Action and Contemplation" in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1986 where he presently serves as Founding Director. Scripture as liberation, the integration of action and contemplation, community building, … - John Michael Talbot
John Michael Talbot (b. May 8, 1954) is an American Catholic singer guitarist who is founder of a monastic community, the Brothers and Sisters of Charity. - Pope Clement Xiv
Pope Clement XIV (31 October 1705 - 22 September 1774), born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, was Pope from 1769 to 1774. At the time of his election, he was the only Franciscan friar in the College of Cardinals. - Junípero Serra
Father Junípero Serra was a Spanish (Majorcan) Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California. - Robert Grosseteste
Robert Grosseteste (c. 1175 - October 9, 1253), English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian and bishop of Lincoln, was born of humble parents at Stradbroke in Suffolk. A.C. Crombie calls him "the real founder of the tradition of scientific thought in mediaeval Oxford, and in some ways, of the modern English intellectual tradition". - Alexander Of Hales
Alexander Hales (also Halensis, Alensis, Halesius, Alesius; called "Doctor Irrefragabilis" and "Theologorum Monarcha") was a scholastic theologian. He was born at Hales, Gloucestershire, England, and died in Paris on August 21, 1245. He was educated in the monastery at Hales, studied and lectured at Paris, acquired great fame as a teacher in theology, and entered the Franciscan order in 1222. - Raniero Cantalamessa
Reverend Father Raniero Cantalamessa is a Franciscan Capuchin Priest within the Roman Catholic Church. Born in 1934, he has served as the Preacher to the Papal Household since 1980. - Thomas Of Celano
Thomas of Celano (Italian: "Tommaso da Celano"; c. 1200 - c. 1260-1270) was an Italian friar of the Franciscans (Order of Friars Minor) was a poet and the author of three hagiographies about Saint Francis of Assisi. Thomas was from Celano in Abruzzo. The first of his works on Francis was "Vita prima" ("First Life"), a work on the saint's early life, commissioned by Pope Gregory XI in 1228 at the time Francis's canonization. - Marcos de Niza
Fray Marcos de Niza, which was at that time under the control of the Italian House of Savoy. He went to America in 1531, and after serving his order zealously in Peru, Guatemala and Mexico, was chosen to explore the country north of Sonora, whose wealth was pictured in the hearsay stories of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Preceded by Estevanico, the Moorish companion of Cabeza de Vaca in his wanderings and the Black Mexican of Zuni traditions, … - Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (Italian: "San Bonaventura") (1221 - 15 July 1274), born John of Fidanza (Italian: "Giovanni di Fidanza"), was the eighth Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly called the Franciscans. He was a scholastic theologian and medieval philosopher, a contemporary of Thomas Aquinas, and a Cardinal Bishop of Albano. - Michael Scanlan
Father Michael Scanlan (b. December 1, 1931) is a Catholic priest, author, and Chancellor of the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Michael Scanlan was born in Far Rockaway, New York to Vincent M. Scanlan and Marjorie O'Keefe Scanlan. After a strong Catholic upbringing, he matriculated to Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he received his bachelor's degree at the age of 22 in 1953. - Charles J. Chaput
Charles Joseph Chaput, OFM Cap (born September 26, 1944) is the current archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver, Colorado. Archbishop Chaput was born in Concordia, Kansas. In July of 1968, at the age of twenty three, he was solemnly professed as a Brother in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a branch of the Franciscans. A little over two years later, in August of 1970 he was ordained a priest. In 1977, he became pastor of Holy Cross parish in Thornton, … - Brother Leo
Brother Leo (d. c. 1270), the favourite disciple, secretary and confessor of St Francis of Assisi. The dates of his birth and of his becoming a Franciscan are not known; but he was one of the small group of most trusted companions of, the saint during his last years. After Francis's death Leo took a leading part in the opposition to Elias: he it was who broke in pieces the marble box which Elias had set up for offertories for the completion of the basilica at Assisi. - Louie Vitale
Fr. Louie Vitale ofm (June 1, 1932–) is a Franciscan priest, activist, co-founder of Nevada Desert Experience. He served as the provincial superior of the California Franciscan Friars from 1979 to 1988. Then he served as the pastor at St. Boniface Catholic Church in the tenderloin of San Francisco, California. Louie has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. - Joseph Of Cupertino
Saint Joseph of Cupertino (or Giuseppe da Copertino, born Giuseppe Maria Desa) (June 17, 1603 - September 18, 1663) was an Italian saint. He was said to have been remarkably unclever, but prone to miraculous levitation and intense ecstasies that left him gaping. In turn, he is recognized as the patron saint of air travelers, aviators, people with a mental handicap, and bad students. He was canonized in 1767. - Bernardino Of Siena
Saint Bernardino of Siena (sometimes Bernardine, September 8 1380 - May 20, 1444) was an Italian preacher, Franciscan missionary and Christian saint. - Luca Pacioli
Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes "Paciolo") (1445-1514 or 1517) was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting. He was also called Luca di Borgo after his birthplace, Borgo Santo Sepolcro, Tuscany. - Luke Wadding
Luke Wadding (1588 - 1657), Irish Franciscan friar and historian, was born in Waterford and went to study at Lisbon. He became a Franciscan in 1607, and in 1617 he was made president of the Irish College at Salamanca. The next year he went to Rome and stayed there till his death. He collected the funds for the establishment of the Irish College of St Isidore in Rome, for the education of Irish priests, opened 1625, and for fifteen years he was the rector. - Angela Of Foligno
Angela of Foligno (ca. 1248 - 4 January, 1309) was a Christian author, nun, and mystic. She was noted not only for her spiritual writings, but also for founding a religious order. - Louis Hennepin
Father Louis Hennepin, baptized Antoine was a Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Recollect order (French: "Récollets") and an explorer of the interior of North America. Hennepin was born in Ath, province of Hainaut, Belgium, but became French in 1659, when Béthune, the town where he lived, was captured by the army of Louis XIV of France. At the request of Louis XIV the Récollets sent four missionaries to New France in May 1675, … - Ramon Llull
Ramon Llull was a Majorcan writer and philosopher born into a wealthy family in Palma, Majorca, in the Balearic Islands, then part of the Crown of Aragon, now part of Spain. He wrote the first major work of Catalan language literature. Recently surfaced manuscripts show him to have anticipated by several centuries prominent work on elections theory. He is sometimes considered a pioneer of computation theory, especially given his influence on Leibniz. - Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic period. He was a renowned performer throughout Europe during the 19th century, noted especially for his showmanship and great skill with the piano. Today, he is considered to be one of the greatest pianists in history, despite the fact that no recordings of his playing exist. Liszt is frequently credited with re-defining piano playing itself, and his influence is still visible today, … - Bernardino de Sahagún
Bernardino de Sahagún, was a Franciscan missionary to the Aztec (Nahua) people of Mexico, best known as the compiler of the Florentine Codex, also known as "Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España" ("General History of the Things of New Spain"). - Richard Of St. Victor
Richard of St. Victor (died 1173), was one of the most important mystical theologicans of 12th century Paris, then the intellectual center of Europe. Richard, a Scot, was prior of the famous Augustinian abbey of Saint-Victor in Paris from 1162 until his death in 1173. Richard was a student of the great German mystic Hugo of St. Victor, whose principles and methods he adopted and developed. - Brennan Manning
Brennan Manning (christened Richard Francis Xavier Manning) is an author, monk, priest, contemplative and speaker. Born and raised in Depression-era New York City, Manning finished high school and enlisted in the US Marine Corps, where he fought in the Korean War. When Manning returned to the states, he enrolled at Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania. Upon his graduation from the seminary in 1963, Manning was ordained to the Franciscan priesthood. - Diego de Landa
Diego de Landa Calderón was Bishop of Yucatán. He left future generations with a mixed legacy in his writings which contain much valuable information on pre-Columbian Maya civilization, and his actions which destroyed much of that civilization's history, literature, and traditions. Born in Cifuentes, Guadalajara, Spain, he became a Franciscan monk in 1541, and was soon sent as one of the first Franciscans to the Yucatán. - Leonard Of Port Maurice
Leonard of Port Maurice (born 20 December1676, at Porto Maurizio on the Riviera di Ponente; died at the monastery of S. Bonaventura, Rome, 26 November1751) was an Italian Franciscan preacher and ascetic writer. - Benedict The Moor
Saint Benedict was an Italian saint. He was born of Christopher and Diana Manasseri, Africans (Ethiopians) who were taken to San Fratello (also known as "San Fradello" or "San Philadelphio"), near Messina, Sicily, as slaves and later were converted to Christianity. Benedict was not a Moor, but the Italian "il Moro" for "the Black" has been misinterpreted as referring to a Moorish heritage. - George Preca
Saint George Preca (in Maltese: San Ġorġ Preca was a Maltese priest who founded the Society of Christian Doctrine, a society of lay catechists. In Malta, he is affectionately known as "Dun Ġorġ" and is popularly referred to as the "Second Apostle of Malta," after Saint Paul of Tarsus. He was canonized on 3 June 2007. - Michael Of Cesena
Michael of Cesena ("Michele di Cesena" or Michele Fuschi) (c. 1270 - November 29 1342) was a Franciscan, general of that Order, and theologian, born at Cesena, a small town in Italy. - Peter Of Alcantara
Saint Peter of Alcantara was a Spanish Franciscan. He was born at Alcántara, Spain. His father, Peter Garavita, was the governor of the place, and his mother was of the noble family of Sanabia. After a course of grammar and philosophy in his native town, he was sent, at the age of fourteen, to the University of Salamanca. Returning home, he became a Franciscan of the Stricter Observance in the convent at Manxaretes in 1515. - William Of Rubruck
William of Rubruck (also William of Rubruk, Willem van Ruysbroeck, Guillaume de Rubrouck, Willielmus de Rubruquis, born c. 1220 in Rubrouck, northern France, died c. 1293) was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer. His account is one of the masterpieces of medieval geographical literature comparable to that of Marco Polo. - Marianne Cope
Mother Marianne Cope, was a Franciscan nun of the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Heppenheim (Germany) and entered religious life in Syracuse, New York, she worked, lived and died for the lepers on the island of Moloka‘i in Hawai‘i. She was not herself inflicted by the disease, a fact arguably declared to be miraculous considering her close contact with the patients over the course of several years, …
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