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How did the mendicant orders come about?

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Both of the two main new orders founded by Saint Dominic and Saint Francis were prompted by a need to reinvigorate the life of the Catholic Church. Francis came to this through a long period of personal conversion. Dominic's concern was to combat the Cather heresy in southern France by offering a model of God being active within the world. They attracted a significant level of patronage, as much from townsfolk as aristocrats. Their focus of operation rapidly centered on towns where population growth historically outstripped the provision of rural parishes. Most medieval towns in Western Europe of any size came to possess houses of one or more of the major orders of friars. Some of their churches came to be built on grand scale with large spaces devoted to preaching, something of a specialty among the mendicant orders.

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