09, Choi, Genesa Marie M.

1:00pm 2:30pm
Dr. Carmen Alviar SCL

Title: St. Dominic de Guzman
I. Summary
1. St. Dominic de Guzman was the son of Felix Guzman and Bl. Joan of Aza, he
was born at Calaruega, Spain, studied at the Univ. at Palencia, was probably
ordained there while pursuing his studies and was appointed canon at Osma in
1199.
2. He was born into a family of privilege and educated in Spain where he attended
university for ten years, studying arts and theology.
3. He became prior superior of the chapter in Osma, which was noted for its strict
adherence to the rule of St. Benedict.
4. In 1203 he accompanied Bishop Diego de Avezedo of Osma to Languedoc where
Dominic preached against the Albigensians (heresy) and helped reform the
Cistercians.
5. To perpetuate among the benighted souls his future apostolate, St. Dominic
founded a three-fold religious Order, one for the converted Albigensian women at
Prouille, one for an apostolic band of preachers, and another for men and women
known as Tertiaries living in the world as lay Dominicans affiliated with the
Order.
6. Founder of the Order of Preachers, commonly known as the Dominican Order
7. St. Dominics humility, fatherly kindness, patience and joyfulness under
persecution impressed even his enemies who at times mocked, spit at him and
pelted him with stones or mud.
8. He twice rejected a bishopric, and he enjoyed a warm friendship with the Poor
Man of Assisi, which is still commemorated in the liturgies of the Franciscan and
Dominican Orders.
9. St. Dominic journeyed to the Eternal City on foot for four times where Pope
Honorious III confirmed his Order and granted him the convent of St. Sixtus for
his nuns and that of Santa Sabina for his friars.
10. St. Dominic died at the age of fifty-one, according to Guiraud "exhausted with the
austerities and labors of his career.

II. Terms:
1. Ordain to make someone a priest or a minister
2. Heresy belief or opinion contrary to the generally accepted ones.
3. Benighted in a state of pitiful intellectual or moral ignorance, typically owing to
a lack of opportunity.
4. Commemorated to recall or show respect for someone in a ceremony.
5. Austerities sternness or severity of manner or attitude.