Dominic, Saint (dŏm`ənĭk), 1170?–1221, Castilian churchman, named Domingo de Guzmán, founder of the Dominicans Dominicans (dəmĭn`ĭkənz), Roman Catholic religious order, founded by St.
..... Click the link for more information. . He studied at Palencia and became a canon, then prior of canons, of the cathedral of Osma. He and his bishop went (c.1203) to Rome seeking permission to evangelize the Tatars Tatars (tä`tərz) or Tartars
..... Click the link for more information. ; instead, Pope Innocent III sent them to S France to preach to the Albigenses Albigenses (ălbĭjĕn`sēz) [Lat.,=people of Albi, one of their centers], religious sect of S France in the Middle Ages.
..... Click the link for more information. . Adopting absolute poverty, they wandered about Languedoc preaching and were the first Catholic missionaries to have success there. St. Dominic started a community for women converts at Prouille in 1206. In 1216 he was given a house and church at Toulouse for his band of preachers, now numbering 16. The same year he went to Rome and received from Pope Honorius III approval of his plans for the new order. The order, with its novel vocation to study and preaching, grew phenomenally. An ancient tradition, often pictured, tells how the saint received the rosary rosary [rose garden], prayer of Roman Catholics, in which beads are used as counters. The term, applied also to the beads, is extended to Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist prayers that use beads.
..... Click the link for more information. from the Virgin Mary in a vision. It is also told that St. Dominic and St. Francis Francis, Saint, or Saint Francis of Assisi (əsē`zē)
..... Click the link for more information. met and became friends in Rome, establishing a close tie between Franciscans and Dominicans that has continued to the present. Feast: Aug. 4.
(born 1170, Caleruega, Castile—died Aug. 6, 1221, Bologna, Romagna; canonized July 3, 1234; feast day August 8) Founder of the Order of Friars Preachers, or Dominicans. He joined the religious community of the cathedral of Osma c. 1196. On a visit to southern France in 1203, he encountered the Albigensian heresy (see Cathari) and determined to fight it. He gathered a group of preachers willing to travel the roads barefoot and in poverty, and in 1206 he founded a convent of nuns converted from heresy. While designing his order devoted to preaching, Dominic may first have met St. Francis of Assisi, who became his good friend. In 1216 he received sanction for his order from Pope Honorius III. He established schools of theology at his two principal houses near the Universities of Paris and Bologna.
..... Click the link for more information. . He studied at Palencia and became a canon, then prior of canons, of the cathedral of Osma. He and his bishop went (c.1203) to Rome seeking permission to evangelize the Tatars Tatars (tä`tərz) or Tartars
..... Click the link for more information. ; instead, Pope Innocent III sent them to S France to preach to the Albigenses Albigenses (ălbĭjĕn`sēz) [Lat.,=people of Albi, one of their centers], religious sect of S France in the Middle Ages.
..... Click the link for more information. . Adopting absolute poverty, they wandered about Languedoc preaching and were the first Catholic missionaries to have success there. St. Dominic started a community for women converts at Prouille in 1206. In 1216 he was given a house and church at Toulouse for his band of preachers, now numbering 16. The same year he went to Rome and received from Pope Honorius III approval of his plans for the new order. The order, with its novel vocation to study and preaching, grew phenomenally. An ancient tradition, often pictured, tells how the saint received the rosary rosary [rose garden], prayer of Roman Catholics, in which beads are used as counters. The term, applied also to the beads, is extended to Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist prayers that use beads.
..... Click the link for more information. from the Virgin Mary in a vision. It is also told that St. Dominic and St. Francis Francis, Saint, or Saint Francis of Assisi (əsē`zē)
..... Click the link for more information. met and became friends in Rome, establishing a close tie between Franciscans and Dominicans that has continued to the present. Feast: Aug. 4.
Bibliography
See B. Jarrett, Life of St. Dominic (1934, repr. 1964); P. F. Mandonnet, St. Dominic and His Work (tr. 1944); F. C. Lehner, ed., Saint Dominic: Biographical Documents (1964); M. H. Vicaire, Saint Dominic and His Times (1964).
Dominic, Saint
orig. Domingo de Guzmán)
St. Dominic, detail of a panel by the school of Messina (?), 15th century; in the Museo …
(credit: Anderson—Alinari from Art Resource, New York)
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