Conventual Franciscans
The Friars Minor or Franciscan Friars Minor are a religious community of the Roman Catholic Church. You will also Conventual Franciscan or, named after the color of their Habits, "Black Franciscans ." In France they are called, after the worn around the waist rope, Cordeliers, in the English-speaking world, after the usual there bright gray habit, Greyfriars. The Latin name is the Order Ordo fratrum minorum conventualium, OFM Conv short or OMinConv ( in German: Order of Friars Minor Conventual ).
The Franciscan Order is divided into a male order, a women's order and a Third Order. 1517 has shared the male orders in two separate communities, the Franciscan Friars Minor and the Franciscans ( OFM) or " brown Franciscan ". Today, the Franciscan Friars Minor have about 4,500 members worldwide, so are a smaller community than the Franciscans ( OFM ) or their somewhat younger branch, the Capuchins ( OFM Cap ).
Organization
The General Council of the Franciscan Friars Minor is located in Rome ( Minister General Marco Tasca brother ), the spiritual center of the so-called major and mother of all Franciscan monastery, the Sacro Convento in Assisi. Also in Germany the Order with an independent province of the order is represented, with St. Elizabeth Province Provincial House ( headquarters) in Würzburg. At the Provincial Chapter in October 2007, Brother Leo Beck, longtime Assistant General in Rome, elected Minister Provincial of the German Province. On 1 December 2011 Br Bernardine M. It has since been elected to succeed him.
The Würzburg Franciscan monastery, the oldest, was founded as far back as the St. Francis branch of the Franciscans in Germany, since the 16th century as a monastery of the Franciscan Friars Minor. Among the branches of the Order in Germany include the Monastery of Maria Eck in victory village in Chiemgau, the monastery and education Haus Schwarzenberg in Scheinfeld / franc and the convent of the pilgrimage and vow Church Maria Schutz in Kaiserslautern. In Cologne, the province of the order is responsible for the Minoritenkirche. There are also several branches, which are managed by brothers from the Polish provinces. In August 2007, took over the Franciscan Friars Minor from the Gdansk province of the order, in collaboration with the German St. Elisabeth province pastoral care in the pilgrimage Wallduern.
Despite the general difficulties of the young Order in Germany, which also forced her to the Franciscan Friars Minor, abandon traditional offices or assign to Polish brethren the Order should continue to report regular admissions. On 31 December 2007 the community had three novices and two postulants in Germany. The activities and tasks of the monks range from the classic pilgrimage and pastoral care through spiritual guidance and church youth work to engagement in the mission in Peru and Africa and the homeless work at Würzburg road ambulance.
Known Minoriten
The writer and poet Angelus Silesius resigned after his conversion to the Catholic faith in the Order of Friars Minor.
One of the most famous Friars Minor was the Holy Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who went on behalf of a family man in the Auschwitz concentration camp to death.