FRANCISCAN BROTHERS OF MOUNT BELLEW — Religious congregation founded in the 16th century, reorganized in 1818 by the provincial of the Friars Minor of Ireland and placed under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Tuam in 1830. It is devoted to the education of boys and currently has 15 houses in Ireland with 110 religious.
BIBL.: IG. Tou y Martil, Conspectus trium Ordinum religiosorum S. P. N. Francioli, Rome 1929, p. 205. Cesario van Hulst