According to biographies, he was encouraged by an older brother who was both a Roman Catholic friar and a Communist Party member to become active in the labor movement.

Francis of Assisi - an Italian Catholic friar and preacher.

Saint John Wall, O.F.M., (1620 - 22 August 1679) was an English Catholic Franciscan friar, who is honored as a martyr.

Operating for approximately two decades in the early 17th century, the mission was a religious outpost consisting of one Catholic friar sent out to convert and monitor the native people at the edges of the colony.

There was a coarse blood-libel in that town in the Ottoman empire when a Catholic friar mysteriously disappeared.

Father Francis of Aberdeen (died 1559) was a Catholic Trinitarian friar of Aberdeen and known as the "Protomartyr of Scotland".

Tuco's brother, a Catholic friar.

One account, by a Catholic friar named O Meallain, says that the corpses of the Irish foot soldiers were found with their hands tied.

José Norberto Francisco González Rubio, O.F.M., (1804-1875) was a Roman Catholic friar prominent in the early history of California.

He recorded an example of an exorcism by a Catholic friar of a Filipino woman who had been bewitched and seized with trembling and paroxysms.