San Damiano Retreat CenterDanville, CaliforniaFebruary 22, 2015

St. Francis CenterLos Angeles, California

March 21, 2015

St. Francis ParishSacramento, California

April 16 - 19, 2015

St. Boniface and St. Anthony’sSan Francisco, California

May 2, 2015

Mission San Luis ReyOceanside, California

September 17 - 20, 2015

St. Mary’s ParishPhoenix, Arizona

October 22 -25, 2015

Franciscan Renewal CenterScottsdale, Arizona

November 13 - 15, 2015

More to come! Check our website for the most current schedule.

www.sbfranciscans.org/centennial

a network of graceProvince of Saint Barbara 1915 - 2015

Centennial Celebration

- Join us as we celebrate together 100 years of Prayer, Fraternity, Joy, and Service

- See our traveling centennial exhibit that chronicles the key milestones in our his-tory and highlights the lives of our past and present friars

- Accompany us on our journey with hope for the future

- Attend a prayer service, liturgy, or reception

- Mark your calendars! Current exhibit locations and dates as follows:

a network of graceProvince of Saint Barbara 1915 - 2015

Centennial Celebration1700

1800

1900

Retreat Movement: The Province builds retreat centers where the friars can preach and the faithful can rest. Five centers welcome retreatants today.

Communications Movement: To reach the Province’s communities, the friars develop maga-zines, radio shows, and later, television spots. The Way magazine and the internet are tools of today.

Mission Movement: In order to spread the Gospel, the friars build mission complexes, take on pas-toral roles, and staff parishes. This missionary impulse will eventually lead friars to Russia, Peru, China, Vietnam, and elsewhere.

Education Movement: In the spirit of the traveling friar-missionary generation, friars in the 1920s found they could help different parts of local communities through building schools. Friars continue to work in schools and universities today.

The Province of St. Barbara is founded: The new Province fully serves German, Spanish, and English speaking communities. The friars extend their network among the Native Americans in the southwest and Catholics in the northwest.

1950

2000

Alta California under Mexican governance: Mexican and Irish friars maintain the mission properties tending to agricultural and community needs.

Alta California under the United States government: These frontier communities become part of the U.S. Many of the Franciscan mission lands that had been sold during the Mexican Period are given back to the church in the 1860s by President Abraham Lincoln.

Fr. John Vaughn of the Province of St. Barbara is elected Minister General of the OFM Franciscans world-wide.

St. Anthony’s Dining Room re-opens with room for 300 diners; the Franciscan School of Theology moves to Oceanside, California.

In gratitude, help us celebrate 100 years of the St. Barbara Province!

Friars from the province serving in China move to the Philippines to serve with friars of various provinces. A new province is created in the Philippines in the 1980s.

1760s

1821

1848

1915

1920s

1930s

1940s

1940s

1979

2014

2015

The theological school, located in Santa Barbara, California since the early 1900s, moves to Berkeley in collaboration with the Graduate Theological Union.

1968

Fr. Alfred Boedekker opens St. Anthony’s Dining Room in San Francisco, California. The city em-braces this ministry of sharing meals together.

1949

Friars begin social outreach minis-tries in Guaymas, Mexico at Casa Franciscana and in Los Angeles, California at the St. Francis Center.

1970s

One Friar’s Story

Fr. Lambert FremdlingIn 1940 Fr. Lambert fled Nazi oppression and travelled to the United States to be ordained. Because he was considered an enemy alien, he was confined for the duration of World War II to a 30 mile radius of Cowlic, Arizona. Due to the isolation, he became an expert in the To-hono O’Odham language. He spent the next 40 years ministering to the O’Odham peoples, principally at Topawa, Pisenemo, Chuichu, and Cowlic. Fr. Lambert lived as a Franciscan for 54 years. Following his death in 1989, he was given the singular honor of burial among the O’Odham as a member of the O’Odham community.