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Dominic
Dominic (c. 1170–1221) was a Catholic priest from Castile who founded the Order of Preachers, known as the Dominican Order, which received papal approval in 1216. The Catholic Church venerates him as Saint Dominic.
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- Dominican OrderHistory
The Dominican Order is a Catholic religious order founded by the Spanish priest Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III in 1216. Its official name is the Order of Preachers (O.P.). Together with the Franciscans, it is regarded as one of the foremost mendicant orders of the Middle Ages.
- Girolamo SavonarolaPeople
Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) was a Dominican friar and preacher active in Florence, Italy. He denounced corruption in the church and in society, was excommunicated, and was executed. Protestants commonly count him among the forerunners of the Reformation.
- Thomas AquinasPeople
Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and the leading theologian of medieval Scholasticism. He wrote the Summa Theologiae and is venerated in the Catholic Church as a saint and Doctor of the Church.
- Catherine of SienaPeople
Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) was a fourteenth-century Italian mystic and Dominican tertiary. Through her letters to popes and her work as a mediator, she urged the return of the papacy from Avignon to Rome and the unity of the church.
- Mendicant OrdersHistory
The mendicant orders are a type of Catholic religious order that arose in thirteenth-century Western Europe. The term refers to orders such as the Franciscans and Dominicans, which held no corporate property, lived on the offerings and alms of the faithful, and preached as they traveled from town to town.
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