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Gordanus Giordanus Jordanus de Alamaia
A noted and powerful preacher; one of his sermons brought Saint Albert the Great into the Order. Wrote a biography of Saint Dominic. His writings on Dominic and the early days of the Order are still considered a primary sources. Spiritual director of Blessed Diana d'Andalo, and helped her found the monastery of Saint Agnes.
c.1190 at Padberg Castle, diocese of Paderborn, Westphalia, old Saxony rumoured to have been born in Palestine while his parents were on a pilgrimage, and named after the River Jordan, but this is apparently aprochryphal
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate Lectionary for Mass for Blessed Jordan Legend of Blessed Jordan of Saxony Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson Concern for the Dominican Communion Encyclical Letter of Jordan of Saxony Handbook on the Origins of the Order of Preachers Libellus of Jordan of Saxony