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Lecture 23 Francis and Dominic

Lecture 23 Francis and Dominic. Dr. Ann T. Orlando 23 October 2013. Spiritual Movements: New Orders. Franciscans Dominicans Both start as mendicants, very different from Benedictines Not in a monastery Vocation is among God’s people Both approved by Innocent III

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Lecture 23 Francis and Dominic

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  1. Lecture 23 Francis and Dominic Dr. Ann T. Orlando 23 October 2013

  2. Spiritual Movements: New Orders • Franciscans • Dominicans • Both start as mendicants, very different from Benedictines • Not in a monastery • Vocation is among God’s people • Both approved by Innocent III • Augustinians and Carmelites

  3. Franciscan Basilica • Begun immediately after Francis’ death in 1226 • One of Francis’ earliest followers supervised beginning of Basilica • Really two basilicas, an upper and a lower one • Site of Francis’ tomb • This is the ‘Mother House’ of Franciscan order • Many famous Italian artists, including Cimabue and Giotto, painted frescos

  4. Assisi at the Time Francis was Born (1181) • Wealthy hill town in Tuscany • Francis’ father was a cloth merchant • Assisi was often at war with other nearby towns • Francis joined the Assisi troops as a young man and was captured in a skirmish with Perugia

  5. Francis Begins His Spiritual Journey • After returning to Assisi in a prisoner exchange, Francis started to pray and look for a different way of life • He went to Rome on a pilgrimage and on returning stopped to pray at the deserted church of St. Damiano • A voice tells Francis to ‘rebuild my Church’ • Francis used money from his father’s business to buy materials • His Father, angered by this, brought Francis before the bishop to be admonished • Francis stripped himself naked, saying he wanted nothing from his father • Francis starts to lead a mendicant life, saying he would be poor as Christ was poor

  6. A Group Gathers Around Francis • Some people were shocked by Francis’ life-style • But some wanted to join him in his way of life • Francis’ holiness and gentleness with all God’s creatures led to many stories about Francis • Francis and the wolf of Gubbio • San Damiano became the Church for St. Clare and her followers, the ‘poor Clares’ • Feast Day for St. Clare is August 11

  7. Francis’ Spirituality • Total embrace of ‘Lady Poverty’, not ‘Lady Wisdom’ as way of life • Francis’ Rule emphasizes walking in poverty in the footsteps of Jesus; • Pilgrimage to Holy Land; • Met the sultan • Rules for Franciscans to live in Holy Land with Muslims • Emphasis on tangible religious experience: • Christmas crib • Stigmata as a sign of Francis’ identification with Jesus • Francis was most famous man in Europe in his lifetime; his order grew explosively • Poet: Canticle of the Sun, Prayer of St. Francis • Feast Day is Oct. 4

  8. Franciscan Rule • Actually two Rules written by Francis, the Longer and the Shorter • Encourage mendicant lifestyle and adoption of complete poverty • Deemphasizes study, even literacy • Deemphasizes ecclesial offices • Rule revisions • Even before Francis dies, control of Franciscans is given to others • Franciscans become more organized, intellectual, wealthy

  9. Franciscan ‘Schism’ • Shortly after Francis dies, the order becomes conflicted about its future • ‘Conventual’ Franciscans relax some aspects of Francis’ extreme poverty • ‘Spiritual’ Franciscans continued to live as Francis had • Some become engaged in apocalyptic warnings • Followers of Joachim of Fiore (1132-1202) and were deemed heretics

  10. St. Dominic (1170-1221) • Born in Spain; he traveled to southern France to preach against the Albigensian heresy • Founded a school for French women • First order of Dominicans were nuns • Received permission from Innocent III to found an order of preachers to preach Catholic orthodoxy

  11. Albiginsians • Named for town of Albi, France where heresy was centered • Also known as ‘Cathars’ from Greek for pure • Beliefs • Two gods, one evil the other good • Material evil • Two classes of believers • Special knowledge given to believers

  12. Dominican Spirituality • Rule based on Augustine’s Rule: clergy who lived together but worked among lay people • Also basis for other Medieval Orders • Dominican Rule emphasized study and preaching • Rosary was and remains especially important to Dominicans • Mary appeared to Dominic and gave him a rosary • Established the form the Rosary has today • Feast day is August 8

  13. Dominicans in 13th C • Order started as mendicants • Quickly became centered in cities and especially universities • Focused on education for lay and secular clergy

  14. Other Orders • Augustinians and Carmelites were both granted dispensations by Pope Innocent IV from degree of IV Lateran Council • Augustinians (Order of Hermits of St. Augustine) • Organized from a group of hermits living in northern Italy • Followed ‘Augustinian Rule’ • Carmelites (Order of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel) • Claim to descend from followers of prophet Elias • Actual start seems to be around the Crusades, Christian hermits living on Mt. Carmel • Rule of St. Albert of Jerusalem c. 1210 • Migrated to Europe in mid-13th C • Lay ‘third orders’ became very popular

  15. Assignment • Francis’ Rule, available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/stfran-rule.html

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