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    St. Dominic de Guzman founded the Dominican Order in the 13th century to preach the gospel and oppose heresy. He was born in Spain and studied at the University of Palencia before joining the Canons Regular. On journeys with his bishop, he encountered the Albigensian heresy and helped establish a preaching order approved by the pope in 1216 to combat heresy through poverty, prayer and preaching. The Dominicans placed an emphasis on intellectual life and produced many leading theologians and philosophers throughout the Middle Ages.

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    St. Dominic de Guzman founded the Dominican Order in the 13th century to preach the gospel and oppose heresy. He was born in Spain and studied at the University of Palencia before joining the Canons Regular. On journeys with his bishop, he encountered the Albigensian heresy and helped establish a preaching order approved by the pope in 1216 to combat heresy through poverty, prayer and preaching. The Dominicans placed an emphasis on intellectual life and produced many leading theologians and philosophers throughout the Middle Ages.

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    I. ST.

    DOMINIC: Life and Works


    St. Dominic de Guzman (Santo Domingo de Guzman;
    Spanish) founder of the Order of Preacher or namely,
    the Dominican Order.

    Early Life:
    St. Dominic; Domingo de Guzman was born in
    Caleruega, Castile Spain. In (probably) year 1170. His

    father Felix de Guzman was lord of the manor in the village, and his mother, Jane of Aza was
    also from the local nobility.

    Religious background and Education:


    Domingo de Guzman first studied at Palencia (University of Palencia) who eventually joined the
    “Canons regular” or Canon of Osma (a religious community attached to the cathedral of a
    diocese of Osma about the year 1196, wherein a few years later he became sub-prior, or
    assistant to the superior. In 1203, St. Dominic was accompanied by Bishop Diego (of Osma) to
    a royal mission abroad.

    Encounter with the Albigensians. (First Journey)


    The journey with Bishop Diego was made St. Dominic aware of the threat/s to the Church by the
    Albigensian heretics in the south of France. The Albigensian heretics also known as the Cathars
    or Catharists were reviving the Manachaean teaching/ that two supreme -opposing realities
    exist between good and evil whereas holds that the body was corrupt and only the spirit was
    pure.

    Visiting the Pope in Rome (Second Journey)


    On a second journey St. Dominic and Bishop Diego visited the Pope in Rome, who refused to
    deal from their request to preach the pagans (Albigensians) for the defense of the Church, so
    they returned to France.
    In 1206 the papal legates, depressed at the failure of their mission, consulted the Bishop and St.
    Dominic, who resolved to reason “that the heretics would regain only by an austerity equal to
    their own; the preachers must tramp the roads barefoot and in poverty.
    This was the birth of St. Dominic’s “evangelical preaching”, and part of this campaign was the
    establishment of a convent on nuns in Prouille in 1206 (from the group of women converted
    from the heresy).
    In 1208, peter de Castelnau, a papal legate was murdered by an emissary of the count of
    Toulouse, resulted to a civil war carried by Simon de Monfort, called upon by the Pope to take
    arms to fight the heretics. The war dragged on until Simon’s victory at Muret in 1213. The
    Catholic entered Toulouse and Dominic and his friends were welcomed by the Bishop Foulques
    and established as “diocesan preachers” in 1215.

    Foundation of the Dominicans


    The Dominican Order, formally known as the Order of Preachers (Latin: Ordo Praedicatorum,
    postnominal abbreviation OP), is a mendicant order of the Catholic Church founded in France
    by the Spanish priest Saint Dominic. It was approved by Pope Honorius III via the Papal bull
    Religiosam vitam onV22 December 1216. Members of the order, who are referred to as
    Dominicans, generally carry the letters OP after their names,standing for Ordinis Praedicatorum,
    meaning of the Order of Preachers. Membership in the order includes friars, nuns, active
    sisters, and affiliated lay or secular Dominicans (formerly known as tertiaries, though recently
    there have been a growing number of associates who are unrelated to the tertiaries).

    Founded to preach the Gospel and to oppose heresy, the teaching activity of the order and its
    scholastic organisation placed the Preachers in the forefront of the intellectual life of the Middle
    Ages. The order is famed for its intellectual tradition, having produced many leading
    theologians and philosophers. In the year 2018 there were 5,747 Dominican friars, including
    4,299 priests. The Dominican Order is headed by the Master of the Order, as of 2019, Gerard
    Timoner III. Mary Magdalene and Catherine of Alexandria are the co-patronesses of the Order.

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