Early life
A Castilian Student and Canon
Domingo de Guzmán was born around 1170 at Caleruega in Old Castile, the son of Félix de Guzmán and Juana de Aza. He studied the arts and then theology for about ten years in the schools of Palencia. His early biographers tell that during a famine around 1191 he sold his books, precious annotated manuscripts, to feed the hungry, asking his fellow students how he could study on dead skins while men were dying of hunger.
About 1196 he became a canon of the cathedral of Osma, living under the Rule of St. Augustine in a reformed community, and by 1201 he was its subprior. That year a new bishop, Diego de Acebo, took over the see, and Dominic's life became bound to his.
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