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A Friar Dominguez is quoted by Adrian H. Bustamente in Santa Fe--History of an Ancient City as describing the villa in 1776, the year of American independence from British rule, as consisting of “many small ranches at various distances from one another, with no plan as to their location, for each owner built as he was able, wished to, or found convenient, now for the little farms they have there, now for small herds of clattle which they keep in corrals of stakes, or else for other reasons.”
Friar Laurence says to Romeo:
These early missionaries, who were led by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra, were all tough and courageous men, who faced hunger and hardship when their first agricultural efforts failed.
mendicant as a fly, its legs bent as if to pray, the great swivelling head a friar's black hood, Mephistophilis disguised
"Of course he's in hell--he's a friar."