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When he wrote his Ninety-five Theses against indulgences in October 1517, Luther was an Augustinian friar, a preacher in the Saxon city of Wittenberg, and a theology professor at the university founded there in 1502 by the elector of Saxony, Frederick III, called "the Wise".

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With its ragtag mishmash of characters — a nun, a knight, a lawyer, a wife, a friar, a monk — all speaking in voices as distinctive as any in Dickens or Trollope, "The Canterbury Tales" could easily qualify as a novel in verse.

Black plums seem to vary even more, with flesh that can be reddish to ivory pink and a taste that varies from delicately sugared in the Catalina to tart-sweet in the lush Black Diamond and almost bland in the Friar, a popular late-season plum.

Avendaño was accompanied by another friar, a lay brother, and six Christian Maya.

The scientific name Fratercula comes from the Medieval Latin fratercula, friar, a reference to the black and white plumage which resembles monastic robes.

The group met just outside the Black Friar, an ornately decorated pub built in 1905 on the site of an old Dominican friary near the Blackfriars Bridge.

His final touch was to insert a full-length portrait of himself, flanked by a friar in a Dominican habit, almost certainly a posthumous portrait of Fra Angelico.

"A friar is a portable monk, and the theater is a portable art," said Father Cameron, 50, who grew up in Vernon.

Moments like these made the Big East tournament, quintessential New York moments, melting-pot moments, a Friar and an Orange and a Bearcat walk into the Garden moments.

In the Summoner's Tale, a friar asks a man for alms.