The History of St. Dominic: Founder of the Friars Preachers (Classic Reprint)

Life of St. Dominic and of the history of his Order1 was published by the present writer about thirty-four years ago. This volume having long been out of print, it has been thought desirable to supply its place with a more complete history of the Saint than it was possible to attempt within the limits of the former publication. In doing so, passages from the earlier biography have been freely reprinted whenever this was found convenient; nevertheless, such extensive corrections and enlargements have been introduced into the present volume as render it a new and distinct work. The reader who enters on the study of the Life of St. Dominic, needs to be reminded of the period of history to which it belongs. It includes the fifty years which succeeded the martyrdom of St. Thomas of Canterbury, a time of much corruption and social dis order, during which we see the Church torn by schism and in deadly conflict with the secular power, but 1T he Life of St. Dominic, -with a Sketch of the Dominican Order.
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