... Catholic religious order founded as a community of hermits in Palestine during the 12th century by the French hermit St Berthold. The original rule, written for them in 1209 by the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Albert of Vercelli, was severe, prescribing poverty, abstinence from meat, and solitude. It was approved in 1226 by Pope Honorius III. After the Crusades, the Englishman St ... frequent hostility on the part of the parochial clergy, whose rights often seemed to be invaded by the friars. The Dominicans played the leading part in the evangelization of South America; the first Ameri...

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