For the most recent, authoritative account of the mendicant orders in Ireland, see Colmán Ó Clabaigh, The friars in Ireland, 1224–1540 (Dublin 2012). The Franciscans and Dominicans were 'imbued with a spirit of poverty, simplicity of life, and mystical learning for union with Christ'; Jem Sullivan, 'The Visit of Saint Thomas Aquinas to Saint Bonaventure (1629), Francisco de Zubarán (1598–1664), Basilica of San Francisco el Grande, Madrid, Spain,' Magnificat, 2/10 (July 2012), i–vi: iii.