A key pillar to the Roman Catholic Church are its Saints. Saints are men and women who are recognized by the Church to have had an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness to God and or Christ. There are many hundreds of Saints within both the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church and Coptic Churches. The writing of the history and great acts of saints is called a Hagiography, literally meaning sacred writing. Of the many hundreds of saints, a few stand out in the history, Saints like Saint Peter, Paul, Thomas Aquinas, and Benedict. Among these influential Saints is Saint Dominic of Osma, founder of the Dominican Order, a mendicant religious order founded in 1216. Saint Dominic’s legacy was his order, and from that order grew a new
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Rule thirty one is on preachers themselves, and directly states “Let them act, with religious decorum, as men of the Gospel following in the footsteps of their Savior…being careful to avoid undue familiarity with others.” The order knows that the preachers will be more tempted to sin when they are among the people and are unlikely to have the piety of Dominic, which is why the leaders directly say in the rules to not get too familiar with people and to keep some distance while preaching the Gospel. Along with that, all preachers are directly commanded to carry no money of any kind, only food, clothing, books, and any other necessary objects to preach. They are an order of impoverished monks in the image of the apostles …show more content…
Being a Dominican himself only a few years after the death of Saint Dominic, Jordan of Saxony has nothing but praise for Saint Dominic. “Master Dominic, the original founder of this religious order… while living among sinners in the flesh, conversed piously with God and the angels…, served his eternal Creator with all his faculties, and lit up the hideous darkness of this world by his blameless life and the celibacy of very holy fellowship.” According to Jordan, Dominic’s, mother, who is inferred to be infertile and the reason why Dominic is the patron saint of hopeful mothers, had a vision of her bearing in her womb a dog which would set fire to the entire world. Jordan wrote that the mother saw this vision as a sign that her son would be an eminent preacher who barked sacred
Rule thirty one is on preachers themselves, and directly states “Let them act, with religious decorum, as men of the Gospel following in the footsteps of their Savior…being careful to avoid undue familiarity with others.” The order knows that the preachers will be more tempted to sin when they are among the people and are unlikely to have the piety of Dominic, which is why the leaders directly say in the rules to not get too familiar with people and to keep some distance while preaching the Gospel. Along with that, all preachers are directly commanded to carry no money of any kind, only food, clothing, books, and any other necessary objects to preach. They are an order of impoverished monks in the image of the apostles …show more content…
Being a Dominican himself only a few years after the death of Saint Dominic, Jordan of Saxony has nothing but praise for Saint Dominic. “Master Dominic, the original founder of this religious order… while living among sinners in the flesh, conversed piously with God and the angels…, served his eternal Creator with all his faculties, and lit up the hideous darkness of this world by his blameless life and the celibacy of very holy fellowship.” According to Jordan, Dominic’s, mother, who is inferred to be infertile and the reason why Dominic is the patron saint of hopeful mothers, had a vision of her bearing in her womb a dog which would set fire to the entire world. Jordan wrote that the mother saw this vision as a sign that her son would be an eminent preacher who barked sacred