ManyRoads :coffeecup: · @ManyRoads
605 followers · 5016 posts · Server mstdn.social

"Who was Duns Scotus?
His name is now the byword for a fool, yet his proof for the existence of God was the most rigorous of the medieval period"

aeon.co/essays/duns-scotus-was

#god #medieval #History #Franciscan #metaphysics #thought #philosophy

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brodio · @brodio
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Patrick · @SobaFett
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athinkingman · @athinkingman
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Maureen · @maureenk
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It looks like the Franciscan Friars here have converted a four plus one. Some how seems appropriate....

#chicago #architecture #fourplusone #midcenturymidrise #Franciscan

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Pino Carafa šŸ¾ · @rozeboosje
56 followers · 285 posts · Server masthead.social

I am starting to look like a friar with a belt instead of a rope and one end of it hanging down.

Time to buy a new, shorter, belt methinks.

šŸ¤©

#weightloss #Franciscan

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Social Collages · @SocialCollages
9 followers · 56 posts · Server mstdn.social

Monk in Wild West. A Franciscan monk preaching to Native Americans in the 1800ā€™s in the American west. Surreal handmade collage made from cut paper.

Link to Collage: ernesto-beckford.pixels.com/fe

#spiritual #nativeamerican #Franciscan #Artist

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Amon Mazingo · @afrotalescast
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Amon Mazingo · @afrotalescast
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jdmccafferty · @jdmccafferty
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14 Jan 1331: d (possible date) Oderic of Pordenone, , traveller, who was resident in as a missionary. His tomb at Udine

#otd #china #Franciscan

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Amon Mazingo · @afrotalescast
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jdmccafferty · @jdmccafferty
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13 Jan 1591: b. Arthur [Francis] Bell future at Temple Broughton, Hanbury near Worcester at Tyburn. A skilled linguist in six tongues & translator of De Soto's 'How we ought to hear Mass'. Executed at Tyburn in 1643 (BM/eebo/JMcC)

#otd #Franciscan

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jdmccafferty · @jdmccafferty
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11 Jan 1605: Ambrose Wadding of older brother of Luke Wadding enters the novitiate Sant' Andrea Rome Luke would go on to found two colleges in

#rome #irish #otd #Jesuit #Franciscan #waterford

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jdmccafferty · @jdmccafferty
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10 Jan 1610 (ns): d. Matteo de Oviedo archbishop of at Valladolid (BM)

#otd #dublin #Franciscan #spanish

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jdmccafferty · @jdmccafferty
822 followers · 2652 posts · Server mastodon.online

9 Jan 1639: Francis Harold nephew & biographer of Luke Wadding of starts his studies in St. Isidore's college

(2nd image here is some of his manuscript from
UCD Digital library)

#poetry #otd #rome #irish #waterford #Franciscan

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jdmccafferty · @jdmccafferty
819 followers · 2613 posts · Server mastodon.online

8 Jan 1633: Bonaventure Baron of arrives to study theology in the college of St Isidore's

He had an extensive career as a scholar, traveller, courtier & (JMcC)

#poet #otd #rome #Franciscan #irish #clonmel

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Auschwitz Memorial · @auschwitzmuseum
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8 January 1894 | Fr. Maximilian Kolbe, OFM, was born in Zduńska Wola.

As a prisoner of Auschwitz (no. 16670) on 29 July 1941, he sacrificed his life to save a person selected for starvation death after an escape of a prisoner. On 14 August 1941, he was murdered with a phenol injection.

Poland

#auschwitz #history #otd #priest #christianity #religion #sacrifice #starvation #death #remember #memory #neverforget #WW2 #Kolbe #saint #Franciscan #ofm #nazis #germany

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jdmccafferty · @jdmccafferty
807 followers · 2430 posts · Server mastodon.online

4 Jan 1555: The Attainder of William Peto of Warwickshire, a observant, is reversed by Mary I

Peto was created a cardinal on 14 June 1557, but died within a year (BM)

#otd #Franciscan

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jdmccafferty · @jdmccafferty
767 followers · 2234 posts · Server mastodon.online

31 Dec 1623: the young very capable Thomas Fleming consecrated as Archbishop of (JMcC) Here he is the fresco at S. Isidoreā€™s - unlike everyone else in it he did not publish but he was a major fundraiser for Franciscan intellectual enterprises

#irish #rome #otd #dublin #Franciscan

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eleanor, ofs · @eleanor
128 followers · 386 posts · Server cityofchicago.live

@jolz I was taught the Scotian theory at a retreat, and it had me reeling for a week. Definitely recommend the writings of Bl. John Duns Scotus.

#Franciscan

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