Friar

A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders founded since the twelfth or thirteenth century; the term distinguishes the mendicants' itinerant apostolic character, exercised broadly under the jurisdiction of a superior general, from the older monastic orders' allegiance to a single monastery formalized by their vow of stability. The most significant orders of friars are the Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians and Carmelites.

Definition

Friars are different from monks in that they are called to live the evangelical counsels (vows of poverty, chastity and obedience) in service to society, rather than through cloistered asceticism and devotion. Whereas monks live in a self-sufficient community, friars work among laypeople and are supported by donations or other charitable support. A monk or nun makes their vows and commits to a particular community in a particular place. Friars commit to a community spread across a wider geographical area known as a province, and so they will typically move around, spending time in different houses of the community within their province.

FRA

Fra is a title of a friar.

Fra or FRA may also refer to:

  • Fra McCann (born 1953), Irish politician
  • Alfarista Radical Front (Spanish: Frente Radical Alfarista), an Ecuadorian political party
  • Federal Railroad Administration, a division of the United States Department of Transportation
  • Fell Runners Association, a British sport organisation
  • Flash Recovery Area, an Oracle Database technology
  • Fleet Reserve Association
  • Flint River Academy, in Woodbury, Georgia, United States
  • Forward Rate Agreement, a financial instrument
  • France
  • Frankfurt Airport, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • Franklin Road Academy, a school in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
  • Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union
  • Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment (Swedish: Försvarets radioanstalt)
  • Wireless local loop, or fixed radio access, in telecommunications
  • FRA - Full Retirement Age refers to US Social Security age that allows full payment.

    Frankfurt Airport

    Frankfurt Airport (IATA: FRA, ICAO: EDDF) (German: Flughafen Frankfurt am Main, also known as Rhein-Main-Flughafen) is a major international airport located in Frankfurt, the fifth-largest city of Germany and one of the world's leading financial centres. It is operated by Fraport and serves as the main hub for Lufthansa including Lufthansa CityLine and Lufthansa Cargo as well as Condor and AeroLogic. The airport covers an area of 2,000 hectares (4,942 acres) of land and features two passenger terminals with a capacity of approximately 65 million passengers per year, four runways and extensive logistics and maintenance facilities.

    Frankfurt Airport is by far the busiest airport by passenger traffic in Germany as well as the 4th busiest in Europe after London Heathrow Airport, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport and İstanbul Atatürk Airport. The airport is also the 17th busiest worldwide by total number of passengers as of April 2015, with 61.032 million passengers using the airport in 2015, an increase of 2.5% from 2014. It also had a freight throughput of 2.076 million metric tonnes in 2015 and is the busiest airport in Europe by cargo traffic. As of winter 2012, Frankfurt Airport served 264 destinations in 113 countries, making it the airport with the most international destinations in the world.

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