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friar

noun as in abbot

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"His family were in finance and they were working really temporarily in London," says Father Paul Addison, a friar at the church.

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It was closely associated with the Spanish conquest, Spanish friars acting as de facto colonial administrators and the church becoming a big landowner.

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A few accounts say friars who presented Guatemalan Mayans to Philip II of Spain in 1544 also gifted him cacao beans.

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A theologian who later became a Dominican friar, he revolutionised Church teachings with his 1971 book Theology of Liberation.

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A friar who knew of his struggle encouraged him to start dating a woman, but it didn’t feel natural.

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