mendicant

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Therefore, in 1290, he granted full powers to his legate, Nicholas, Patriarch of Jerusalem, to appoint inquisitors, with the advice of the Mendicant provincials.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

In the busy world of the thirteenth century there was thus no agency more active than that of the Mendicant Orders, for good and for evil.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

The selections have been made from four previous volumes now out of print: Mendicant Rhymes, The Little Land, Rue, and Spikenard.

From Poems by Shanks, Edward

Issuing triumphant from such an ordeal the Mendicant Orders proved once and for all that their position in the Church of Christ is impregnable.

From Saint Bonaventure The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order by Costelloe, Laurence

The Mendicant Orders were already a sufficiently dangerous factor, and now came these new inquisitors, armed with papal commissions, superseding their time-honored jurisdiction in every spot within their dioceses.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles