FAMOUS SCIENTISTS ON DOMINIS

Marko Antonije de Dominis (Rab 1560 – Rome 1624), Archbishop of Split (as he introduced himself till the end of his life) was a teacher of philosophy, mathematics and rhetoric, doctor of theology, legal advisor, diplomat, Bishop of Senj, Archbishop of Split, Dean of Windsor, lord… He was the author of numerous works and papers out of which we must point out his monumental work De republica ecclesiastica, libri X (On Ecclesiastical State in 10 volumes) in which he had suggested the Catholic church reforms that would have brought to the Christian churches reunion. His writing and points of view sent him to the inquisition prison in Rome where, during the process, he died. Later, his dead body, together with his picture and a bag of files, was burned in the square Campo dei fiori, and his ashes were thrown into the river Tiber.Today, when ecumenism has become the basic postulate of the Catholic church, it would be fair and of value to remind ourselves of Marko Antonio de Dominis who literally burnt for his idea of Christian churches unity.Dominis himself described best his lifelong aim in his First Proclamation:
As for my self, I have always had an inborn desire (which ever since my admittance into the Clergy I have cherished) to see all the several parts of Christendom consenting, and united together. The distraction of the West from the East, of the South from the North (in matters of faith) as I never could brook, so I never left searching into the causes of so lamentable a divorce, and sounding whether any means might be found for the recombining, and reducing them to their ancient union. And the more I longed to see this happy conjunction, the greater was my inward grief, to behold the manifold divisions among the Professors of Christianity, the bitter hatred, and unquenchable broils between the most renowned Churches, the shameful cutting, and tearing of the seamless garment of our Saviour.