Today's Flickr photo with the most hits was taken in Soller, Majorca.

The church of St Bartholomew, Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, John Duns Scotus

#soller #majorca #statue #JohnDunsScotus #Franciscan

23 Sept 1605: Luke Wadding of #Waterford takes #Franciscan vows near #Oporto #Portugal #otd

Scholar of history & theology, founder of three #Irish colleges, promoter of St.Patrick

7 Sept 1625: John Punch, #Cork Scotist theologian, was among the first students to enter St. Isidore's #Irish #Franciscan college #Rome #otd (JMcC)
27 Aug 1590: d. Pope Sixtus V, #Franciscan, rebuilder of #Rome #otd
20 Aug 1667: the date written on a forged Papal Bull by which James Taaffe #Franciscan claimed to be papal commissary & apostolic visitor for the #Irish church (BM)
He hoodwinked a lot of people.
19 Aug: feast of Louis of Toulouse #otd a prince who became a #Franciscan who became a bishop & lived in great poverty (Met) d. 1297.
11 Aug 1534: The Observant #Franciscan friars of #Greenwich expelled from their house #otd (BM) Henry VIII turned on them for defending Catherine of Aragon - previously they had been very high in #Tudor favour
22 July 1622: William Trumbull, James VI & Iโ€™s ambassador reports from #Brussels that Robert Chamberlain #Franciscan had come back from Rome with an order from the Earl of Tyrone to gather ships for a descent on the #Irish coast