FRANCISCAN EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE, THE - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. V, p. 1005

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

THE FRANCISCAN EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE

A periodical publication edited by the homonymous association of English-speaking Franciscans. The F.E.C. was founded in 1919 in St. Louis (United States) at the initiative of Fr. Thomas Plasmann, O.F.M., with the aim of safeguarding the principles of Catholic education and promoting and assisting, through didactic subsidies and other means, the educational work of the Franciscans in America.

Article illustration — At present, the organization has its headquarters at St. Bonaventure College in New York, and all Franciscan provinces, including the Conventuals, have joined II.

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FRANCISCAN STUDIES

A quarterly Franciscan review established in 1941 at St. Bonaventure College in New York through the merger of the *Franciscan Educational Conference* (q.v.) with *F. S.*, a periodical publication of a monographic character, whose title it assumed.

In its current form, the review publishes studies and research concerning various philosophical, theological, historical, and social problems, considered in the spirit and tradition of the Franciscan school. One of its issues is generally dedicated to the "report" of the annual congress organized by the *Franciscan Educational Conference*.

Stanislao Majarelli