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It was closely associated with the Spanish conquest, Spanish friars acting as de facto colonial administrators and the church becoming a big landowner.

A few accounts say friars who presented Guatemalan Mayans to Philip II of Spain in 1544 also gifted him cacao beans.

A theologian who later became a Dominican friar, he revolutionised Church teachings with his 1971 book Theology of Liberation.

A friar who knew of his struggle encouraged him to start dating a woman, but it didn’t feel natural.

Junípero Serra, the controversial Franciscan friar who established the mission system in California, was also on the list.