Editing Dominican Order (section)

===Dominic de Guzmán===
{{Main|Saint Dominic}}
[[File:Santo Domingo en oración.jpg|thumb|left|[[Saint Dominic]] (1170–1221), portrait by [[El Greco]], about 1600]]

As an adolescent, Dominic de Guzmán had a particular love of theology, and the Scriptures became the foundation of his spirituality.{{sfn|Hinnebusch|1975|p=17}} During his studies in [[Palencia]], Spain, there was a dreadful famine, prompting Dominic to sell all of his beloved books and other equipment to help his neighbours.{{sfn|Tugwell|1982|p=53}} He was made a canon and ordained to the priesthood in the monastery of Santa María de La Vid.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Hook|first=Walter Farquhar|title=An ecclesiastical biography, containing the lives of ancient fathers and modern divines, interspersed with notices of heretics and schismatics, forming a brief history of the church in every age|publisher=[[Rivington (publishers)|F. and J. Rivington]]; Parker, Oxford; J. and J. J. Deighton, Cambridge; T. Harrison, Leeds|year=1848|volume=4|location=London|pages=467}}</ref> After completing his studies, Bishop Martin Bazan and [[Prior (ecclesiastical)|Prior]] [[Diego de Acebo]] appointed him to the cathedral chapter of [[Osma]].{{sfn|Hinnebusch|1975|p=19}}