!!!Franziskaner OFM

Franciscans (OFM = Ordo Fratrum Minorum), mendicant order following 
the rule of St. Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226), since 1517 (split 
into Friars Minor Conventual, often called  Minoriten in the 
German-speaking countries,  and Franciscans) an independent order, 
from which the  Friars Minor Capuchin separated in 1619.  The 
Franciscans currently resident in Austria developed from what were 
called the Observants, who laid more stress on poverty than the 
Conventuals. The first monastery of Observants in Austria was founded 
by Johannes von  Capistran in Vienna in 1451. A year later a Province 
of the order with monasteries in what were then Austria, Styria, 
Bohemia, Moravia and Poland was founded. This Province later gave rise 
to the Franciscan Provincialate of Eastern Austria (Vienna, Lower 
Austria, Styria and Burgenland), which persists to this day. The 
Franciscan Provincialate of Tirol, which also continues to this day, 
was established in 1580 (now comprises Tirol, Salzburg, Upper Austria 
and Carinthia) In 1930 the Tirolean Franciscans were put in charge of 
the Jesuit mission at Chiquitos in Bolivia, where they continue to 
operate a social development programme.


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