Third Order Franciscan Women
Dr. Darleen Pyrds on early lay Franciscan women. Given to the Franciscan Sisters in Philadelphia.
Darleen Pryds
Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality and History
Darleen Pryds specializes in the Medieval Franciscan Tradition (Lay Franciscans and the Third Order, Lay Preaching, Mysticism) and the Spirituality of Dying and Death. Her focus on lay Franciscans has analyzed the tradition of lay preaching as a form of “Somatic Theology,” or theology expressed through lived experience.