John Lacy: A Dominican Contemplative
Dom Bede Griffiths
Life of the Spirit March 1, 1951 DOI: 10.1017/s0269359300016840 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that members of preaching orders in the later Middle Ages were sometimes allowed to become anchorites devoted to contemplation and manual labor, and offers Brother John Lacy at the Dominican Priory of Newcastle-on-Tyne in the early fifteenth century as an example. |
Abstract
It is not often recognised that members of Orders devoted to such activities as that of preaching were sometimes allowed to shut themselves up in anchorholds and to give themselves entirely to contemplation and to the work of their hands. But this was in fact the case in the later middle ages; and we find a pleasant example of it at the Dominican Priory of Newcastle-on-Tyne at the beginning of the fifteenth century in the person of Brother John Lacy.