File:Domini Canis, detail from Santo Domingo de Guzmán by Claudio Coello, circa 1685.jpg

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Description The Domini Canis (Latin: "Dog of the Lord") of Saint Dominic, depicting a dog holding in its mouth a lit torch. A depiction of the Vision of St Jane of Aza, St. Dominic’s mother. As recounted in the Libellus of Jordan of Saxony (d. 1237), St. Dominic’s first biographer and successor: Before his mother conceived him, she saw in a vision that she would bear in her womb a dog who, with a burning torch in his mouth and leaping from her womb, seemed to set the whole earth on fire Domini_Canis, detail from Santo Domingo de Guzmán by Claudio Coello, circa 1685.jpg
Date c.1685
Source https://mervinop.wordpress.com/2016/08/13/the-myth-about-domini-canis/
Author Claudio Coello

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