>This dog became a symbol of the Dominican Order and in
>later ages gave rise to the pun *Domini canes*, the watch-dogs of the
>Lord.
Not quite: they became watchdogs, perhaps, but the original image was
drawn from their travelling about SW France and NE Spain converting
heretics (or maybe just the ignorant), in groups like a pack of
hounds. The first to do this were Cistercians: not really a monastic
way of doing things, so Dominicans were invented instead.
Later they invented things like Thomism and the Inquisition (well, up
to a point)
a.c.
Anselm Cramer OSB
Ampleforth Abbey, York
GB - YO6 4EN
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