WHO ARE WE? When asked by curious people, "Where are you from? ... What Order do you belong to?" St. Francis and his early companions answered with simplicity, "We are penitents from Assisi." We are a community of Franciscan Friars, a non-profit Roman Catholic religious institute, a Province of the Third Order Regular of Saint Francis of Penance in USA, Argentina, Cyprus, Jerusalem, Nazarieth, Jaffa, Ramleh, Bethlehem, Jericho, Amman, Tripoli and Lattakia.