Franciscan - Vocabulary of Academic Culture: Top 175 Eponymous Adjectives

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Vocabulary of Academic Culture: Top 175 Eponymous Adjectives of People As ranked by Google Ngram Viewer corpus search of millions of texts published 1988-2008 Adjective Franciscan Next satanic / Satanic Previous Lutheran Related Lutheran Namesake St. Francis of Assisi d. 1226, Italian preacher Total rank 24 Religious Rank 4 % Change from 1967-1987 -10 Decade of 1st prominent use pre-1675 Used as much as personalized Used 2x as much as Amish Used half as much as Boolean / boolean Era Medieval Sample quote This work offers a complete resource for the thousands of people who are members of the First (male), Second (female) and Third (lay men and women) Associates and friends of Franciscan communities, and all who aspire to embrace the … [teachings]. Quote source Joy in All Things: A Franciscan Companion By Franciscan Assoc of Gb (2009, Hymns Ancient and Modern; jacket) Text Franciscan. Franciscan. Francis of Assisi was born into a rich family. With his intellect and apparent charisma, he surely could have achieved a prominent and high-paid position within the Catholic Church. Instead, he died a poor and relatively young man of 45 years old, though he was made a saint only two years after his death. I’m sure he had no regrets. Francis’ ideology was representative of a growing trend of his time in which many criticized the Catholic Church for being too rich and not helping poor people enough. After all, Francis would say, Jesus taught his followers to be completely detached from all possessions, and even from their own family, so they could be completely dedicated to Christ and his teachings. Francis was insistent that imitating Christ’s life was the best way to live. Considering the Catholic Church tended to be the largest landowner across Western Europe, it may have been fair to ask how Christian it really was from a Franciscan view. Well, the Pope at the time, Innocent III, was clever. He officially sanctioned Francis’ project in 1210, allowing Francis to gather like-minded brothers to travel and preach to “the poor and the weak, the sick and the lepers, and those who beg by the wayside.” They were not allowed to carry anything with them and were to be happy as long as they had food and clothing on their back. We now call this the Franciscan Order, also known as the Greyfriars. It seems the Franciscans were much liked and their numbers increased dramatically in Francis’ lifetime. His presence and ideas did much to spread a positive image of the church. The idea of re-creating the nativity scene of Jesus’ birth is a Franciscan cultural contribution to many Christians’ celebrations around Christmas. He is also the first documented person to get the stigmata, or wounds of Christ. While he was fasting for 40 days in imitation of Jesus, his fellow traveler, Brother Leo, saw Francis bleeding from the wrists, feet, and side in the manner of Jesus when he was crucified on the cross. Although it started simple, the Franciscan Order itself soon became large and well-funded. Franciscan scholars such as Roger Bacon, William of Occam, Rabelais, and many more made significant contributions to medieval thought and art. Then, Franciscan missionaries made lasting political impacts by helping to found Spanish settlements in the New World in places like San Diego, Santa Barbara, and …. oh yeah, San Francisco… all while forcing the native population to build their missions. It’s hard to stay consistent when an ideology grows very large, but in theory, these missions were supposed to help the non-Christian Indians. So, when you read about something Franciscan, it means an ideology that is intended to teach and care for struggling peoples in the same manner that Jesus did. Joke (picture of Golden Gate Bridge) No, no, no. Dried bread is the Saint Franciscan treat. The San Franciscan treat is Rice-a-Roni. sources: The great Internet preacher, Wikipedia Google Ngram Viewer In Our Time, BBC Radio 4—Greyfriars and Blackfriars http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9dz “Records of Christianity, vol. 2” edited by David Ayerst and A.S.T. Fisher (1979, Basil Blackwell and Mott Limited: pp. 162-166; including Dr. J. R. H. Moorman’s account of The Basic Rule of St. Francis music: “Shortbread” by Scott Sprankle https://www.youtube.com/user/Spranklemusic/