Olite. Wills from 1243 and 1270 are cited in which mandates are made to the friars of Olite, but historians of the Order usually assign the year 1345 as the year of foundation of the Franciscans in Olite. It belonged to the custody of Navarre and the province of the Claustrales de Aragón until it was reduced to the Regular Observance by the authority of St. Pius V in the second half of the 16th century, when it became dependent on the Franciscan province of Burgos. In 1744 this convent was d a College of Apostolic Missionaries. With the laws of exclaustration of 1836, the community was dissolved when the famous Friar José de Areso was part of it. Even so, the religious, in their talar costume, continued in the convent at the service of their church and in the exercise of the missions under the dependence of the diocese. In 1880, the city authorities, in agreement with the religious, achieved the incorporation of the convent into their own province after the appropriate authorisations had been obtained. The inauguration of this new historical phase took place on 25 August of that year. Since then it has been one of the main houses of studies in the province. The first two interprovincial chapters of the Order were held in 1904 and 1909, and those of the province in 1886 and 1906. In 1933 it had 15 fathers, 35 choristers and 10 laymen. [Ref. J. R. de Larrinaga].