Friar Martin Day, OFM Conv. celebrates his 40th year in a Franciscan habit this summer.  He was invested as a novice in 1982 at the then-novitiate in Mishawaka, Indiana.  Martin…

Friar Ken Bartsch, born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1948, is the oldest of ten children. He was a “lifer,” entering Mount Saint Francis Minor Seminary a month before his fourteenth…

Friar Savio Manavalan is originally from Kerala, India. The present provincial House of St. Maximilian Kolbe Province, India, is close to his grandma’s house and he has a cousin who…

Initially from Logansport, Indiana, Joe met the friars at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, where they serve two parishes, St. Benedict and St. Joseph University Parish, which serves the…

Fr. Bob was born in St. Paul, MN (in 1949). He was raised in Bloomington, MN (near where the Mall of America is located). He attended St. Richard’s Grade School…

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Born and raised in Louisville KY, friar Paul Clark pursued a dream to work in healthcare, and attended St. Louis University (SLU), in St. Louis, MO.  While at SLU, he…

Friar Wayne currently serves as Minister Provincial for his Province of Our Lady of Consolation. He is professor emeritus at Saint Louis University. He had earned his Doctorate in Theology…

Friar Vincent Petersen is an environmental artist who works mostly in the acrylic medium.  Since childhood, the beauty of the Earth held him captive.  Growing up in rural Minnesota, he credits the…