dominici

Might I recommend a spin through the anti-modernist encyclical of St. Pius X, Pascendi dominici gregis; you should be able to find it on the web in a number of places.

Clarification 2009

They were, therefore, the great cultivators of sacred Scripture, and monasteries became schools of wisdom and schools of "dominici servitii," "of the service of the Lord," as St. Benedict called them.

B16, On the Message of Lourdes papabear 2008

Benedict calls the monastery a dominici servitii schola.

Zenit: Benedict XVI on the Roots of European Culture papabear 2008

They were, therefore, the great cultivators of sacred Scripture, and monasteries became schools of wisdom and schools of "dominici servitii," "of the service of the Lord," as St. Benedict called them.

Archive 2008-09-14 papabear 2008

Benedict calls the monastery a dominici servitii schola.

Archive 2008-09-07 papabear 2008

To limit local abuses, the missi dominici (usually a bishop and count) were introduced (802) as officers on circuit in a given district.

795-96 2001

Compare the _missi dominici_ with the "eyes and ears" of Persian kings.

Early European History Hutton Webster

Charlemagne to appoint special agents, called _missi dominici_ ( "the lord's messengers"), to maintain control over them.

Early European History Hutton Webster

Explain the following expressions: "do-nothing kings"; _missi dominici_; Holy Roman Empire; and "Donation of Pepin."

Early European History Hutton Webster

In the constitutions he drew up each nation or people was left the use of its own laws; gradually the duchies were divided into countships, the counts being vassals iof the king, and having in turn valvassori (vassi-vassorum) who looked up to them as liege-lords, while ranking over all were the missi dominici who in the king's name saw to it that justice was meted out to everyone.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913