International. An Order Of Preachers, Two Pairs Of Cufflinks

Dominican Order. In 14K Gold with black and white enamels, marked "14K" (Gold) and maker marked "S.J." (Stefano Johnson of Milan) on their reverses, measuring 14.8 mm (w) x 17.3 mm (h) each, both with a sliding pin within a post attachment, intact enamels, extremely fine.

Footnote: The Order of Preachers, also known as the Dominican Order, is a mendicant Catholic religious order founded by the Spanish priest Dominic of Caleruega (also called Dominic de Guzmán) in France, approved by Pope Innocent III via the Papal bull Religiosam vitam on December 22, 1216. Members of the order, who are referred to as Dominicans, generally carry the letters OP after their names, standing for Ordinis Praedicatorum, meaning of the Order of Preachers. Membership in the order includes friars, nuns, active sisters, and affiliated lay or secular Dominicans (formerly known as tertiaries, though recently there has been a growing number of associates who are unrelated to the tertiaries). Founded to preach the Gospel and to oppose heresy, the teaching activity of the order and its scholastic organization placed the Preachers in the forefront of the intellectual life of the Middle Ages. The order is famed for its intellectual tradition, having produced many leading theologians and philosophers.