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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In 1554 he instituted a reform, exceedingly austere and rigorous, in his order, and erected the first convent for these discalced Franciscans at Pedroso.
The discalced fathers of St. Augustine entered Manila in the year 606, at which time they built a large convent, that of San Nicolas.
Continuation of the matter of the preceding section, with especial bearing on our discalced Recollect branch.
And the father master, Fray Joseph Sicardo, adds very fittingly, that “our discalced religious having received the great island of Mindòro, increased the Christianity of its natives by means of so zealous ministers.”