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Dominic de Guzman
The Albigensian heresy was pervasive throughout the south of France when Dominic De
Guzman went on a journey as written by Dante...
Therein was born the amorous paramour of Christian Faith, the athlete
consecrate, kind to his own and cruel to his foes…Dominic was he called; and
him I speak of even as of the husbandman whom Christ elected to his garden to
assist him…Not for the world which people toil for now in following Ostiense and
Taddeo, but through his longing after the true manna, he in short time became so
great a teacher, that he began to go about the vineyard, which fadeth soon, if
faithless be the dresser…He asked for, but against the errant world permission to
do battle for the seed, of which these for and twenty plants surround thee…and in
among the shoots heretical his impetus with greater fury smote, wherever the
resistance was the greatest. Of him were made thereafter divers runnels, whereby
the garden catholic is watered, so that more living its plantations stand… 30
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Dante, The Divine Comedy, trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008), 559.