The Church of Sant’Agostino

The dispute with the Dominicans

  • The dispute between the Dominicans and Augustinians about their habit arose around 1256, the year of the Grand Union. Some Augustinian friars, such as the Bonites and the Brittin, wore a white tunic and scapular (cloister garments) even outside the convent, just like the Preaching Friars. Thus Pope Alexander IV, to avoid confusion between the two orders, with his bull Meminimus nos of 1259 . . .