Early in the thirteenth century, St Francis of Assisi and St Dominic set up their own Orders which went in different directions. Dominic set up the Order of Preachers (Dominicans or Black Friars) which sent missionaries out into the world to combat the heresy of the Cathars in southern France who believed in two Gods – one good, the other evil. Francis, though associated today with animals, chose to follow Jesus through poverty, giving away his cloak to a thief who had stolen his hood. Both these men could be said to have created the friar, a new-priest-on-the-block in the thirteenth century
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Enter Tuck and the weirdness of his personal order
