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Guillaume Adam
Guillaume Adam (), also known in English as William Adam (died ), was a Dominican missionary, writer, and French Catholic archbishop. Adam served as the Papal missionary in Persia from 1314 to 1317, one of six Dominicans sent by Pope John XXII to Persia. However, it is now thought that Adam was probably in Persia before 1314, during the pontificate of Pope Clement V. He was transferred to Smyrna in 1318, and served as their bishop. In 1322, he was promoted to archbishop of Soltaniyeh in Persia. On 26 October 1324, he was elected Archbishop In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdi ... of Antivari in the Old Doclea. After a disagreement with the Pope, Adam stepped down as archbishop in 1341. William wrote one treatise on the recovery of the Holy Land—''De modo sarracen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers (, abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic Church, Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilians, Castilian priest named Saint Dominic, Dominic de Guzmán. It was approved by Pope Honorius III via the papal bull on 22 December 1216. Members of the order, who are referred to as Dominicans, generally display the letters ''OP'' after their names, standing for , meaning 'of the Order of Preachers'. Membership in the order includes friars, nuns, Religious sister (Catholic), active sisters, and Laity, lay or secular Dominicans (formerly known as Third Order of Saint Dominic, tertiaries). More recently, there have been a growing number of associates of the religious sisters who are unrelated to the tertiaries. Founded to preach the The gospel, gospel and to oppose heresy, the teaching activity of the order and its scholastic organisation placed it at the forefront of the intellectual life of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recovery Of The Holy Land
The theme of recovery of the Holy Land () was a literary genre, genre in High Middle Ages, High–Late Middle Ages, Late Medieval Christian literature about the Crusades. It consisted of treatises and memorandum, memoranda on how to recover the Holy Land for Christendom, first appearing in preparation for the Second Council of Lyon in 1274. They proliferated following the Fall of Acre, loss of Acre in 1291, shortly after which the Crusader states, permanent Crusader presence in the Holy Land Fall of Outremer, came to an end, but mostly disappeared with the cancellation of Philip VI of France's planned crusade in 1336 and the start of the Hundred Years' War between England and France the next year. The high point of recovery proposals was the pontificate of Clement V (). History Neither the Siege of Jerusalem (1187), first loss of Jerusalem in 1187 nor Siege of Jerusalem (1244), its final loss in 1244 led to a surge of written crusade proposals. In both cases, the crusade planning i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
