Dominican Order facts for kids
The Order of Preachers (Latin:Ordo Praedicatorum, OP) is a Roman Catholic religious order. Its members follow the rules Saint Dominic gave them in the 13th century. After the 15th century they are commonly known as Dominicans.
Images for kids
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A figure depicting the term "domini canes" (lat. "hounds of the lord") since the Inquisition in the 13th century, on a corner of a former Dominican monastery (before the Reformation), Old University, Marburg, Germany
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Saint Dominic on the front cover of Doctrina Christiana catechism in Spanish and Tagalog with an eight-pointed star (a symbol of the Blessed Virgin Mary) over his head. Woodcut cover. Printed in Manila in 1593
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Saint Dominic (1170–1221), portrait by El Greco, about 1600
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Saint Dominic's room at Maison Seilhan, in Toulouse, is considered the place where the Order was born.
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Doctor Angelicus, Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), considered by the Catholic Church to be its greatest medieval theologian, is girded by angels with a mystical belt of purity after his proof of chastity.
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Allegory of the Virgin Patroness of the Dominicans by Miguel Cabrera.
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Bartolomé de Las Casas (c.1484–1566)
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The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) by Giovanni di Paolo, c. 1460 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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Painting of Albertus Magnus (1206–1280) by Justus van Gent, ca. 1475
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Pope Innocent V depicted in a 1350s fresco by Tommaso da Modena, in Treviso.
See also
In Spanish: Orden de Predicadores para niños