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Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Nicholas Tavelic and Companions 11/6/2023
St. Nicholas Tavelic is a sterling example of a Franciscan Knight whose sword was the Gospel.
Just when you think you’ve got a good handle on the calendar of saints another one comes to prominence exactly at the moment when you need to hear their story.
St. Nicholas moved from the first way of St. Francis to the second.
He volunteered to go the Holy Land to help maintain the Christian places of worship under the Mamluk Sultans of the 14th Century.
After some time and study St. Nicholas decided to take a very direct evangelical approach and set off to preach to the Quadi leader, being martyred near the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem, 1391 on November 14th
St. Francis Assisi addresses this in the Rule of 1221 where he writes that the friars going to proclaim the Gospel to the Saracens (Muslims) “can conduct themselves among them spiritually in two ways.