DOMINIC, SAINT


Meaning of DOMINIC, SAINT in English

orig. Domingo de Guzmán

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 Dominican s.

He joined the religious community of the cathedral of Osma 0441; 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.

St. Dominic, detail of a panel by the school of Messina (?), 15th century; in the Museo ...

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