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 DOMINICAN ZEAL. 293 the heretics who were thus openly defiant. On his way the leo-- ate paused at Eagusa to superintend the election of an orthodox archbishop, after which he ordered aU Dalmatia and Croatia to join in a crusade, but no one followed him, and he went alone to Bosnia, where he died the same year. Better results were promised by the ambition of Ugolin, Archbishop of Kalocsa, who desired to extend his province ; he proposed to Andreas II. of Hungary that he would lead a crusade at his own cost, and king and pope prom- ised him all the territories which he should clear of heretics, but Ugohn overrated his powers, and adopted the expedient of sub- sidizing with two hundred silver marks the ruler of Syrmia, Prince John, son of Margaret, widow of the Emperor Isaac Angelus. John took the money without performing his promise, though re- minded of it by Honorius in 1227. Eelieved from apprehension, the Bosnians deposed their Ban Stephen and replaced him with a Catharan, Ninoslav, one of the most notable personages in Bosnian history, who maintained himself from 1232 to 1250.^ The scale at length seemed to turn with the advent on the scene of the Mendicant Orders, full of the irrepressible enthusiasm, the disregard of toil and hardship, and the thirst for martyrdom of which we have akeady seen so many examples. Behind tliem now, moreover, was Gregory XI., the implacable and indefatigable persecutor of heresy, who urged them forward unceasingly. The Dominicans were first upon the ground. As early as 1221 the Order formed establishments in Hungary, developing its proselyt- mg energy from that centre, and thus taking the heretics in flank. The Dominican legend relates that the Inquisition was founded in Hungary by Friar Jackzo (St. Hyacinth), an early member of the Order, who died in 1257, and that it could soon boast of two mar- tyred inquisitors. Friar Nicholas, who was flayed ahve, and Friar John, who was lapidated by the heretics. In 1233 we hear of the massacre of ninety Dominican missionaries among the Cumans, and it was perhaps somewhat earlier than this that thirty -two were drowned by the Bosnian heretics, whom they were seeking to convert ; but Dominican ardor was only inflamed by such inct schichte Bosniens, nach dem Kroatischen von Ivan v. Bojnicic, Leipzig, 1885, pp.
 * Potthast No. 6612, 6725, 6802. -Raynald. ann. 1225, No. 21.-Klaic, Ge-