Recent Examples on the WebAuri Hummes entered religious training at 9, became a Franciscan friar at 22 and was ordained a priest just days before his 24th birthday, taking Cláudio as his religious name.New York Times, 13 July 2022 The friar’s presence in the image turns the Madonna into a colossus, massive and otherworldly. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022 The scale of the fruit, moreover, shifts the viewer’s perception of the figure of the friar himself—who, suddenly, appears to be shown on a much larger scale than the trees around him. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022 The Mississippi attorney general’s office later dropped a second set of charges against West in the abuse of another student as the 62-year-old former friar began a 45-year prison sentence. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022 Paul West, a former friar who was a teacher and principal, was convicted in April of abusing a former student at the school. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022 The islanders were assigned a parish priest by the Diocese of Guadalajara, but without a parish church, Father Jose de la Garza had to grant permission to a mission friar to perform the community’s first baptism Aug. 31, 1731. Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Mar. 2022 Semnani, a Muslim, insisted on showcasing leaders of other faiths, too, such as Silvestre de Escalante, a Franciscan friar-explorer, and Father Lawrence Scanlan, Utah’s first Catholic bishop.The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022 The 14th-century Franciscan friar William of Occam saw the importance of finding the simplest explanation for any phenomenon—the principle known as Occam’s Razor. Taylor Cromwell, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2022 See More
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Middle English frere, fryer, from Anglo-French frere, friere, fraire literally, brother, from Latin fratr-, frater — more at brother