a group of people living under a religious rule

a Roman Catholic friar wearing the grey habit of the Franciscan order

an Order of friars in the Catholic Church, among the chief offshoots of the Franciscans.

a community of Catholic men and women in the world who seek to pattern their lives after Christ in the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi.

The Franciscans of Primitive Observance, or "FPOs" as they are commonly called, are a Roman Catholic group that lives a strict observance of the Rule of St. Francis.

one of the three families in the modern organization of the Franciscan Order.

a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans.

a Roman Catholic friar wearing the grey habit of the Franciscan order