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  2. Medieval Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    The Medieval Inquisition was a series of Inquisitions ... the Dominicans and the Franciscans, ... Throughout the Inquisition's history, it was rivaled by local ...

  3. Dominican Order - Wikipedia

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    The Order of Preachers (Latin: Ordo Prædicatorum, abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian priest named Dominic de Guzmán.

  4. Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    The Inquisition was permanently established in 1229 (Council of Toulouse), run largely by the Dominicans [34] in Rome and later at Carcassonne in Languedoc. In 1252, the Papal Bull Ad extirpanda , following another assassination by Cathars, charged the head of state with funding and selecting inquisitors from monastic orders; this caused ...

  5. Tomás de Torquemada - Wikipedia

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    Tomás de Torquemada [a] OP (14 October 1420 – 16 September 1498), also anglicized as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Roman Catholic Dominican friar and first Castillian Grand Inquisitor of the Tribunal of the Holy Office, which was a group of ecclesiastical prelates created in 1478 and charged with the somewhat ill-defined task of "upholding Catholic religious orthodoxy" within the lands of the ...

  6. Saint Dominic - Wikipedia

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    The Dominican order has very strong links with Malta and Pope Pius V, a Dominican friar himself, aided the Knights of St. John to build the city of Valletta. [ 55 ] The Pattern of Urlaur is an annual festival held on 4 August at Urlaur, Kilmovee , County Mayo since medieval times, to commemorate the feast day of Saint Dominic.

  7. Albigensian Crusade - Wikipedia

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    The Albigensian Crusade had a role in the creation and institutionalization of both the Dominican Order and the Medieval Inquisition. The Dominicans promulgated the message of the Church and spread it by preaching the Church's teachings in towns and villages to stop the spread of heresies, while the Inquisition investigated people who were ...

  8. French Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    Dominican Jean de Moulins, before becoming a cardinal in 1350, was the inquisitor of Toulouse from 1344 to 1348. Around 1330, the activity of the Dominican inquisition in the Kingdom of France significantly declined. In Languedoc, the Cathar sect was completely exterminated.

  9. Diego de Deza - Wikipedia

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    Deza was born in Toro, Zamora and entered the Dominican Order at a young age. He held a number of ecclesiastical posts, and also tutored Prince Juan de Aragón y Castilla, also known as John, Prince of Asturias, the only surviving son of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.