Dominican Order facts for kids

The Order of Preachers (Latin:Ordo Praedicatorum, OP) is a Roman Catholic religious order. Its members follow the rules Saint Dominic gave them in the 13th century. After the 15th century they are commonly known as Dominicans.

Images for kids

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  A figure depicting the term "domini canes" (lat. "hounds of the lord") since the Inquisition in the 13th century, on a corner of a former Dominican monastery (before the Reformation), Old University, Marburg, Germany

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  Saint Dominic on the front cover of Doctrina Christiana catechism in Spanish and Tagalog with an eight-pointed star (a symbol of the Blessed Virgin Mary) over his head. Woodcut cover. Printed in Manila in 1593

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  Saint Dominic (1170–1221), portrait by El Greco, about 1600

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  Saint Dominic's room at Maison Seilhan, in Toulouse, is considered the place where the Order was born.

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  Dominican epitaph of Berthold de Wyrbna from 1316 on the tower of the parish church in Szprotawa

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  Doctor Angelicus, Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), considered by the Catholic Church to be its greatest medieval theologian, is girded by angels with a mystical belt of purity after his proof of chastity.

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  Allegory of the Virgin Patroness of the Dominicans by Miguel Cabrera.

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  Bartolomé de Las Casas (c.1484–1566)

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  Marble relief of SS Dominic and Catherine

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  The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) by Giovanni di Paolo, c. 1460 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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  Painting of Albertus Magnus (1206–1280) by Justus van Gent, ca. 1475

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  Pope Innocent V depicted in a 1350s fresco by Tommaso da Modena, in Treviso.

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  Young Dominican in 2012

See also

In Spanish: Orden de Predicadores para niños