There is a Latin pun at the heart of medieval Dominican identity so perfect it could only have been God’s own joke—or the devil’s. Domini canes: the Hounds of the Lord. It sounds almost exactly like Dominicanus, the Latin name for a member of the Order of Preachers founded by Saint Dominic in the early […]
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There is a grave irony embedded in the Church of San Francesco of Cortona. The man who built it, who brought its most precious relic from Constantinople, who wished with all his heart to be buried there—and was—that man died outside the order that bore his master’s name, expelled, excommunicated, and unredeemed by any Franciscan
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