31.   Later, a Franciscan friar smiled ruefully when asked to describe interfaith relations at Holy Sepulcher.

32.   One was a Franciscan friar, the other a novice preparing to take vows.

33.   San Diego was built around Spanish missions settled by Franciscan friars to convert Indians to Christianity.

34.   Some church officials, including a Franciscan friar who briefed the Vatican on the situation, angrily accused Israel of provoking the unprecedented violence around the shrine.

35.   Some cited the booming business Franciscan friars do at the souvenir shop attached to the Basilica of St. Francis, a pilgrimage site for Roman Catholics.

36.   The fringe of hair around his bald pate and his self-effacing manner gave him the air of a Franciscan friar.