fray

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In 1538 Fray Marcos de Niza set out from Mexico City, the capital of New Spain, to investigate rumors that the Seven Cities lay somewhere in El Norte Misterioso, the Mysterious North.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Nothing excited 16th-century Spaniards like the prospect of gold, and Fray Marcos’s report that the Seven Cities existed caused a sensation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Allende's header from a pass by Ian Fray put Miami up 2-0 in the 62nd minute.

From Barron's • Oct. 25, 2025

Shekells is one of four players who might make their Red Roses debut in York, including Ealing's Abi Burton, Leicester's Charlotte Fray and Exeter's Flo Robinson.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025

This was father Fray Pedro Bolaños, a man more than sixty years of age—who, at a time when others are accustomed to take their ease, undertook these excessive labors with more courage than strength.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Abreu, Antonio Alvarez de