• The Church rallied and rearmed by the death of Christ against “all evil and mischief,” and “the crafts and assaults of the Devil.” ↩
• In Canto XI 35:⁠— “Two Princes did ordain in her behoof, Which on this side and that might be her guide.” ↩
• In the west of Europe, namely in Spain. ↩
• The town of Calahorra, the birthplace of St. Dominic, is situated in the province of Old Castile. ↩
• In one of the quarterings of the arms of Spain the Lion is above the Castle, in another beneath it. ↩
• St. Dominic. ↩
• Dante believed with Thomas Aquinas, that “the creation and infusion” of the soul were simultaneous. ↩
• Before the birth of St. Dominic, his mother dreamed that she had brought forth a dog, spotted black and white, and bearing a lighted torch in his mouth; symbols of the black and white habit of the Order, and of the fiery zeal of its founder. In art the dog has become the attribute of St. Dominic, as may be seen in many paintings, and in the statue over the portal of the convent of St. Mark at Florence. ↩
• The godmother of St. Dominic dreamed that he had a star on the forehead, and another on the back of his head, which illuminated the east and the west. ↩