Capuchin

The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (OFM Cap) is an order of friars in the Roman Catholic Church, the chief and only permanent offshoot of the Franciscans.

To the present day

Like all other orders, the Capuchins suffered severely from the secularizations and revolutions of the end of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th; but they survived the strain, and during the latter part of the 19th century rapidly recovered ground. At the beginning of the 20th century there were fifty provinces with some 500 friaries and 300 hospices or lesser houses; and the number of Capuchin friars, including lay brothers, was reckoned at 9500. In England there are ten or twelve Capuchin monasteries, and in Ireland three. The Capuchins still keep up their missionary work and have some 200 missionary stations in all parts of the world—notably India, Abyssinia and the Turkish empire. Though "the poorest of all orders," it has attracted into its ranks an extraordinary number of the highest nobility and even of royalty. The celebrated Father Mathew, the apostle of Temperance in Ireland, was a Capuchin friar. Like the Franciscans the Capuchins wear a brown habit.

Related Topics:
Lay brother - Father Mathew

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In the Imperial Crypt, underneath the Church of the Capuchins in Vienna, over 140 members of the Habsburg dynasty are buried. The most recent burial in the crypt was in 1989 for Empress Zita, consort of the last Austrian Emperor Charles I.

Related Topics:
Imperial Crypt - Vienna - Habsburg dynasty - Crypt - 1989 - Empress Zita - Charles I

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United States of America

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The United States has several provinces throughout the country. The Province of St. Joseph, or Province of Calvary, headquartered in Detroit, Michigan was the first Capuchin Province to be established in the country. The Province of Calvary was started by Fr. Francis Haas and Fr. Bonaventure Frey, whom two Swiss diocesan priests that eventually joined the Capuchin Order. The two priests started an institution that is still in existence today of St. Lawrence Seminary High School. The High School is located in Mt. Calvary, Wisconsin, the first capuchin monastery in the United States.

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