Dominican
Contemplative nuns have been at the heart of Dominican life from its inception. The first Dominican nuns, converts from the Albigensian heresy in Prouille, France, professed obedience into the hands of Saint Dominic himself in 1206. Ten years before Pope Honorius officially commissioned the Friars Preachers in 1216, the nuns were already embracing these means and ends of Dominican life: prayer, study, and penance for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.