discalced
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They were discalced to a man like pilgrims of some common order for all their shoes were long since stolen.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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The discalced fathers of St. Francis also labored there for some time, it being ceded to them by the Observant Augustinians.
The discalced fathers of St. Augustine entered Manila in the year 606, at which time they built a large convent, that of San Nicolas.
Notification of this was communicated, on May 2, 1685, to father Fray Joseph de Jesus Maria, procurator-general of the discalced religious of St. Augustine.
In 1554 he instituted a reform, exceedingly austere and rigorous, in his order, and erected the first convent for these discalced Franciscans at Pedroso.