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Austin Friar   /ˈɔstən frˈaɪər/   Listen
Austin Friar

noun
1.
One of the Roman Catholic hermits of Saint Augustine.






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"Austin friar" Quotes from Famous Books



... educated among the Dominicans or Black Friers from his youth, and afterwards their provincial master or chief governor. p. 7, col. 2. Richard Bardney, a Benedictine of Lincolnshire. p. 11, col. 2. John Sowle, a Carme of London. p. 14, col. 1. William Galeon, an Austin friar of Lynn Regis. p. 18, col. 2. Henry Bradshaw, one of the Benedictine monks of St Werberg's, Chester. p. 19, col. 1. John Harley, of the order of the Preaching or Dominican, commonly called Black, Friars p. 54, col.2. Thomas Spenser, ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various

... writer of sacred biography. Several who have augmented his works in France, Spain, or Italy, labored under the same misfortune and often gathered together whatever the drag-net of time had amassed. John Capgrave, an Austin friar, some time confessor to the duke of Gloucester, who died at Lynn in Norfolk, in 1484, compiled the legend of the saints of England, from a more ancient collection, the Sanctilogium of John of Tinmouth, a monk of St. Alban's, in 1366, of which a very fair manuscript copy was, before the last ...
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler



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