What is "franciscans"

Franciscans are people and groups ( religious orders) who adhere to the teachings and spiritual disciplines of St Francis of Assisi. The movement originates within the Catholic Church, where it also remains most numerous. However, Franciscan Orders and Franciscan spirituality are also found within other Christian denominations, including Old Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Lutheranism.

The coat of arms that is a universal symbol of Franciscans "contains the Tau cross, with two crossed arms: Christ's right hand with the nail wound and Francis' left hand with the stigmata wound".

Franciscans are members - Friar Minors - of the Order of Friars Minor, a Catholic religious order founded in 1209 by Francis of Assisi.

It could also refer in general to organisations adhering to the Rule of Saint Francis, including organisations inspired by those.

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