Strongly ascetic in living out his Christian faith, committed equally to preaching, scholarship and democratic organisation. He was charged by bishops with tasks, which included the conversion of the Albigensians and Cathars in southern France. Modelled on the earlier rule of St Augustine, He established the Dominican Order of Friar Preachers. They came subsequently to be known as Black Friars, with a commitment to radical poverty which denied them, communally as well as individually, the right to any ownership of belongings, land or buildings

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