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Nos attendentes is theincipit designating aPapal bull apparently issued in January 1217 byPope Honorius III. Its genuineness has been suspected.[1] If genuine, it is the second of the two bulls that established theDominican Order (for the first, seeReligiosam vitam). In it, the Pope describes the brothers of the order aspugiles fidei et vera mundi lumina: "fighters for the faith and true lights of the world".
The original bull was kept at the convent ofProuille,Saint Dominic's first foundation, and it was from this source that the Latin text was published in 1504 by Albert de Castillo. Later editions derive from this one. The documents of the convent were scattered during theFrench Revolution; the original was then lost. The convent's cartulary containing a 17th-century transcript was recovered, but was not shown to enquirers.
References
edit- ^The French historian of the Preachers, Vicaire, said that this papal bull is a fantastic composition of the 14th century. Cf. M.-H. Vicaire,Histoire de saint Dominique, 2:Au coeur de l'Eglise, Les Editions du Cerf, Paris 1982, p. 67, note 17.
Bibliography
edit- Albert de Castillo,Privilegia maiora et principaliora. Venice: apud Lazarum de Soardis, 1504.
- M. Bihl inArchivum Franciscanum historicum vol. 27 (1934) pp. 262-263.
- Pierre Mandonnet, M.-H. Vicaire,Saint Dominique: l'idée, l'homme et l'oeuvre (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1938) vol. 1 p. 55 note 50.