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black friars
Dominican Do*min"i*can, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.
Black friar
Black friar Black" fri`ar (Eccl.) A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.

Meaning of black friars from wikipedia

- emerged two orders of mendicant friars – one, the Friars Minor, was led by Francis of ****isi; the other, the Friars Preachers, by Dominic de Guzmán....
- A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders in the Roman Catholic church. There are also friars outside of the Roman Catholic church, such as within...
- Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Black Friar public house (London). Historic England. "Black Friar public house (1285723)". National Heritage...
- London Theatre Archive Digitised Posters and Flyers from the Second BlackFriars Theatre, held by the University of East London Shakespearean Playhouses...
- consent of Pope Paul III to shut down the 1297-founded Dominican convent (Black Friars), southerly neighboured to the palace, to acquire the pertaining monastic...
- The Black Friars' Monastery, Svartbrödraklostret, also called the convent of Stockholm, was a Dominican monastery on the island of Stadsholmen (City Island)...
- for a price. She and her company must retrieve a unique key from the Black Friars and bring it to the angel. The two return to the Museum and go below...
- Dominican Order, widely known as "Black Friars". For this reason, it has traditionally been called the "Black Friars Distillery", and this name appears...
- Somali warlord Osman Ali Atto in the 2001 film Black Hawk Down. In 2013, he pla**** the Abbot of the Black Friars in a BBC radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's...
- Blackfriars, derived from Black Friars, a common name for the Roman Catholic Dominican Order of friars, may refer to: Blackfriars, Bristol, a former priory...