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Munio de Zamora (died
1300) became the seventh
Master General of the Dominican Order in 1285, thanks in large part to the manipulations performed by his patron
Sancho IV of Castile. He was dramatically removed from his office in 1290, in an action that involved the
archbishop of Genoa,
Jacob de Voragine (the author of the
Golden Legend).
Munio's career was rehabilitated in 1294, when he was appointed
Bishop of Palencia, thanks to the interventions and bribery of his protector, King Sancho. And perhaps brother Munio was also in the background when Sancho had authorized a payment of 30,000
maravedís to
Cardinal Ordoño in 1285, just one month after Munio had been elevated to Master-General. Brother Munio, dissolute and violent, made an earlier appearance in the Dominican nunnery affair in the small provincial city of
Zamora, which occasioned a visitation by the bishop of Zamora in 1279. The
convent of Dominican nuns was split with faction and the
Dominican friars were behaving like characters from the
Decameron. The resulting depositions survive, to form the basis of a highly readable history by Peter Linehan (1997) that lays open more than just the social history of Dominican friars and nuns in
13th century Castile. Pursuing Munio, his friends and his enemies, from Zamora to the papal
Curia over a twenty-year period, Linehan shows how events in a Castilian nunnery could influence high politics in the medieval Church.
In 1285 Munio promulgated the Rule of the Brothers and Sisters of Penance of the Blessed Dominic (
Regula Fratrum et Sororum Ordinis de Paenitentiae Beati Dominici), which provided a rule of life (lasting into the
20th century) for the "penitent" laymen and women that were linked to the Dominican Order of Preachers. In its opening, the rule lays down the prerequisites: "They must be filled with the utmost jealous, burning zeal, after their own fashion, for the truth of Catholic faith".
The Master of the Order thus offered an opportunity to lay people, who had been independent until then, to adopt a rule of life and be placed under the jurisdiction of the Order of Preachers by making a promise of obedience to the Master General of the Order.
Thus Munio de Zamora receives reverential official biography from the Dominican order.
Munio is entombed in the ancient
basilica of
Santa Sabina, the center of the Dominican order in Rome.
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