Tag: Conventual Franciscan Mission Presences
Conventual Franciscan Mission Presences around the World – XXXII
Provincial Custody of the Holy Cross in Ukraine
Mother Province: Province of St. Anthony and Bl. James of Strepar in Poland (Cracow)
After World War II,...
Conventual Franciscan Mission Presences around the World – XXXI
Provincial Custody of the Orient and the Holy Land (Turkey and Lebanon)
Mother Province: Province of St. Joseph, Spouse of the B.V.M. in Romania
Today’s Provincial...
Conventual Franciscan Mission Presences around the World – XXX
Rioplatense Province of St. Anthony of Padua in Argentina-Uruguay
Mother Province: Italian Province of St. Anthony of Padua (Northern Italy)
In 1946, the Chapter of the...
Conventual Franciscan Mission Presences around the World – XXIX
Provincial Custody of Our Lady of Coromoto in Venezuela
Mother Province: Province of St. Nicholas and St. Angelo in Italy (Puglia)
The beginning of the Conventual...
Conventual Franciscan Mission Presences around the World – XXVIII
Provincial Delegation in Cuba
Mother Province: The Italian Province of St. Francis of Assisi (Central Italy)
- originally the former Provinces of the Marches and Sardinia
The...
Conventual Franciscan Mission Presences around the World – XXVII
Provincial Custody of St. Francis of Assisi in Colombia
Mother Province: Province of Our Lady of Montserrat in Spain
In the mid-1970s, the Order of Friars...
Conventual Franciscan Mission Presences around the World – XXVI
Provincial Custody of Mary, Mother of Mercy in Central America
Mother Province: Province of Our Lady of Consolation in the USA (OLC)
In 1945, friars from...
Conventual Franciscan Mission Presences around the World – XXV
Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico
Mother Province: Province of St. Agatha and St. Lucy in Italy (Sicily)
The first Franciscan missionaries in Mexico...
Conventual Franciscan Mission Presences around the World – XXIV
Provincial Custody of St. Bonaventure in Brazil
Mother Province: Italian Province of St. Francis of Assisi (Central Italy),
former Province of Rome
The mission to northeast Brazil...
Conventual Franciscan Mission Presences around the World – XXIII
Provincial Custody of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M. in Brazil
Mother Province: Province of the Immaculate Conception in the USA,
now the Province of Our...
Mexico: 2025 Pre-Chapter Assembly
The Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico has always celebrated elective Chapters with all of its confreres participating. However, it was decided...
Friar Stanislao MATTEI: 200th Anniversary of Death
May 12, 2025, marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Friar Stanislao MATTEI, OFM Conv. Friar Stanislao was born in Bologna, in 1750....
CEF Annual Assembly
On Easter Monday, still mourning the death of Pope Francis, the Superiors of the Centralis Europae Foederatio (CEF), a number of youth from Croatia,...
Pope Francis to us Franciscans: Our Charism Is Always Relevant!
On April 23, 2025, the world paused to bid farewell to the pontiff. His body arrived in St. Peter’s Square that morning, where thousands...
Spain: Easter Triduum in Fraternity
On April 17-19, 2025, the Province of Our Lady of Montserrat in Spain once again celebrated its annual “Franciscan Easter” at the San Buenaventura...