The Hound of the Hounds – Saint Dominic de Guzman. Why is he the Hound of the Hounds? As legend states it, while pregnant with Dominic, his mother had a dream that a dog came from her womb with a flaming torch in its mouth. She understood the dream as referring to her son Dominic, who would light the world on fire with the Gospel message of Jesus Christ. If you take this legend to be true, then it makes perfect sense because Saint Dominic and his rag-tag order of preachers most certainly set the world on fire. The fire began in the thirteenth century and it still burns to this day. Saint Dominic was born sometime around the year 1170 in the region of Calaroga in Old Castillo, Spain. Not much is known about his father, but his mother, Joan of Aza is a Blessed of the Church. When he was fourteen years old, he was sent to school in Valencia, but quickly transferred to school in Salamanca. After completing his formal education, he was received and ordained into the Regular Canons of St. Augustine in the Diocese of Osma. In 1204, he became prior of the order. In the same year, the King of Castile, Alphonsus IX, asked the Bishop of Osma, Diego de Azevedo, to travel with him to arrange a marriage for his son in Denmark. The Bishop, a close friend of St. Dominic, asked him to come along. While traveling to Denmark, they stopped off in the province of Languedoc, France. On their return trip, they stopped off in Citeaux, France. It was at both of these places that St. Dominic first became acquainted with the Albigensian heresy. The Albigensians believed in two gods. One god was good while the other god was evil. One god controlled the spirit while the other god was in control of the flesh. They thought that the evil god was in control of the world; therefore the whole world was evil. They stem from an Early Church heresy known as Manichaeism. Although it was not completely destroyed, St. Augustine of Hippo put an end to their dominance in the 4th century. Both heresies were very anti-Catholic and had a great contempt for the clergy of the Church. Click the link to continue reading https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1935593596475487&id=727860070582185
andulkaphoto
origamiaround
amandla
izzy806
prguitarman
germansingergirl
romaincrisis