The order of brothers “preaching” or “preachers”?

“When Saint Dominic began to preach in Languedoc, in the midst of the Cathar crisis (religious sect fought by the Church in the 12th century, editor’s note), he went on the roads, like a basic peasant, and preached barefoot on the roads and places, explains Brother Yves Combeau, Dominican, historian and editorial adviser to the television program CFRT-Le jour du Seigneur. This surprised the people of the time: only the bishop gave the homily, and still not every Sunday. Dominic gathered around him other itinerant preachers, who will become, after the foundation of the order in the preaching brothers, designated by the initials OP for Ordo Praedicatorum. The pope had wished to name the order “order of preaching brothers”, so as not to make preaching the prerogative of a single order. But Dominic held firm: he wanted to maintain the link with the itinerant ministry of Jesus. »

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