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Date Posted: 23:28:17 09/17/03 Wed
Author: w_elyon - 1 Jul 2003
Subject: Aquinas a Dominican
In reply to: Niraji - 28 Jun 2003 's message, "Praecepta" on 23:27:36 09/17/03 Wed

DOMINICAN FRIARS
Piety with an inquiring mind!
The Dominican order of preachers is one of the two major monastic groups of Roman Catholic friars, the other being Franciscans. It was founded in 1216 in France by Saint Dominic, and sanctioned in the same year by Pope Honorius III.
The order began as an attempt to convert the Albigenses, a Christian sect named from Albi, a city in southern France. They dared to be different in a time of conformity when the Church claimed political control. The Dominicans were charged by the Pope to destroy this "heretical sect".
In 1233, following several failed armed attempts at eliminating the Albigenses for the previous 30 years, the Pope ordered the formation of the now infamous Inquisition. The Dominicans were in charge of the torture and persecution.
http://www.timarchive.freeuk.com/html/dominicans.htm

The Inquisition operating unremittingly in the south at Toulouse, Albi, Carcassonne and other towns during the whole of the 13th century and a great part of the 14th, succeeded in crushing the heresy. The repressive measures were terrible, in 1245, the royal officers assisting the Inquisition seized the heretical citadel of Montsegur, and 200 Cathari were burned in one day. Moreover, the church decreed severe chastisement against all laymen suspected of sympathy with the heretics (council of Narbonne, 1235; Bull Ad extirpanda, 1252).

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathars

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