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The incredible story for youth of the man who received the Rosary from Our Lady, defeated the Albigensian Heresy, raised the dead, triumphed over the devil, founded the Dominican Order and worked countless miracles. Impr. 156 pgs 19 Illus,

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Christianity

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	01 janvier 1982
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781618904638
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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BOOKS BY MARY FABYAN WINDEATT
A Series of Twenty Books
Stories of the Saints for Young People ages 10 to 100
THE CHILDREN OF FATIMA
And Our Lady’s Message to the World
THE CURE OF ARS
The Story of St. John Vianney, Patron Saint of Parish Priests
THE LITTLE FLOWER
The Story of St. Therese of the Child Jesus
PATRON SAINT OF FIRST COMMUNICANTS
The Story of Blessed Imelda Lambertini
THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL
The Story of Our Lady’s Appearances to St. Catherine Laboure
ST. LOUIS DE MONTFORT
The Story of Our Lady’s Slave, St. Louis Mary Grignion De Montfort
SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS
The Story of “The Dumb Ox”
SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA
The Story of the Girl Who Saw Saints in the Sky
SAINT HYACINTH OF POLAND
The Story of the Apostle of the North
SAINT MARTIN DE FORBES
The Story of the Little Doctor of Lima, Peru
SAINT ROSE OF LIMA
The Story of the First Canonized Saint of the Americas
PAULINE JARICOT
Foundress of the Living Rosary & The Society for the Propagation of the Faith
SAINT DOMINIC
Preacher of the Rosary and Founder of the Dominican Order
SAINT PAUL THE APOSTLE
The Story of the Apostle to the Gentiles
SAINT BENEDICT
The Story of the Father of the Western Monks
KING DAVID AND HIS SONGS
A Story of the Psalms
SAINT MARGARET MARY
And the Promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
SAINT JOHN MASIAS
Marvelous Dominican Gatekeeper of Lima, Peru
SAINT FRANCIS SOLANO
Wonder-Worker of the New World and Apostle of Argentina and Peru
BLESSED MARIE OF NEW FRANCE
The Story of the First Missionary Sisters in Canada

Nihil Obstat: Milian G. Walker, Ph.D. Censor Librorum
Imprimatur: Paul C. Schulte, D.D. Archbishop of Indianapolis July 13, 1948
This story of St. Dominic first appeared in serial form in the pages of The Torch . Published by Sheed & Ward in 1951 as simply Saint Dominic .
Copyright © 1948 by Sheed & Ward, Inc. (revisions).
The type in this book is the property of TAN Books, an Imprint of Saint Benedict Press, LLC, and may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, without written permission from the Publisher. (This restriction applies only to reproduction of this type, not to quotations from the book.)
ISBN: 979-0-89555-430-7
Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 93-61379
Printed and bound in the United States of America.
TAN Books Charlotte, North Carolina 2013
For
My Brothers and Sisters in the
Secular Third Order of Saint Dominic.
CONTENTS
  1. The Early Years
  2. The Work Begins
  3. A Sign From Heaven
  4. Life At Prouille
  5. The War Years
  6. Another Trip to Rome
  7. A Year in Toulouse
  8. The Family Grows
  9. The Young Professor
10. Life at Saint Sixtus
11. In Bologna
12. A Daughter for Dominic
13. A New Work
14. The Miracle
15. A Call from Poland
16. The Work in Rome
17. The Work Continues
18. Bologna Again
Confession-Its Fruitful Practice
1. The Blessings of Confession
2. The Five Things Necessary for a Good Confession
Examination of Conscience
False Consciences and Their Remedies — The Lax Conscience — The Scrupulous Conscience — The Doubtful Conscience — How to Make a Good Examination of Conscience.
Contrition
The Qualities of Contrition — Interior Contrition — Supernatural Contrition — Perfect and Imperfect Contrition — Universal Contrition — Sovereign Contrition — Relapses into Former Sins.
Purpose of Amendment
Occasions of Sin — Purpose of Amendment Must Be Specific.
Confession and Absolution
The Confession of Sins — Qualities of a Good Confession — Confession of Venial Sins — Sacrilegious Confessions — General Confession — Frequent Confession — The Absolution of the Priest.
Satisfaction
The Sacramental Penance — Voluntary Penances — Indulgences.
3. How to Make a Good Confession
The Examination of Conscience
Beginning Prayer — Points for the Examination of Conscience — The Ten Commandments of God — The Six Precepts of the Church — The Seven Capital Sins — Duties of Particular States of Life — Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.
Considerations to Excite Contrition
The Enormity of Sin — God’s Benefits to Me — The Love of Jesus Christ.
Prayers Before Confession
Act of Contrition and Purpose of Amendment — Prayer before a Crucifix — Prayer of St. Gertrude — A Short and Efficacious Act of Contrition.
An Easy Method of Going to Confession
Prayers After Confession
Psalm 102 — Prayer of Thanksgiving — Prayer before Performing the Sacramental Penance.
Litany of Saint Dominic
O LIGHT of the Church, Doctor of Truth, rose of patience, ivory of chastity, freely hast thou dispensed the water of wisdom; Preacher of grace, unite us to the blessed.
— Feast of St. Dominic
Second Vespers,
Magnificat Antiphon
CHAPTER 1
THE EARLY YEARS
I T WAS AUTUMN of the year 1190, and a blistering heat hung low over northern Spain like a breath from Hell. Throughout the kingdoms of Castile and Leon the crops failed. Burgos, Palencia, Valladolid—these and other cities were in the grip of the worst famine in years. People were dropping in the streets like flies, and there was rumor that soon the plague would strike.
“Mother of God, have pity on us!” was the anguished cry that went up from every heart. “Send us bread …”
But there was bread only for those who had money to buy it, and day after day the funeral bells sent out an almost constant dirge as mounds of sunbaked clay were heaped upon the bodies of still more victims of the famine in Palencia things were especially serious, and finally one young man knew that he could stand it no longer. He, twenty-year-old Dominic de Guzman, a student for the priesthood, must do something to help the starving.
“But what can you do?” asked friends and teachers anxiously. “Why, you are little more than a boy …”
“I know,” admitted Dominic. “But I have some money. It will help to buy bread for at least one family.”
Undaunted by the argument that he might as well keep what he had, since it was so little, Dominic went down into the poor section of Palencia and gave away all that he owned—his money, clothes, furniture from his room at school, and finally his books. It was a real sacrifice to part with the books, for they were sheets of precious parchment, that is, dried sheepskin, and of more than ordinary worth because of the many notes which were written in the margins.
“The lad must be a fool!” Dominic’s friends told one another. “How can he keep at his studies without books?”
“That’s right. How can he?”
But Dominic only smiled when such remarks reached his ears. “Who could prize dead skins when the flesh of the living is perishing from want?” he asked. “I’ll manage somehow.”
His faith was rewarded. After his great act of charity, Dominic enjoyed even more success at school than before—leading his classes in every subject, and making a name for himself as a scholar. Indeed, when the Bishop of Osma (a town near Palencia) heard about Dominic’s fine record, and also how he had sold his precious books in order to help the poor, he made up his mind to one thing. Some day this courageous young man must come to live with him. As a priest he would make a fine assistant.
After his ordination in 1195, Dominic did go to Osma. And two years later when the Bishop died and Father Diego de Acebes succeeded to his position, nothing would do but that Dominic remain. He would be of great use as prior of the canons—that is, in charge of the assistant priests who lived in the Bishop’s house.
Dominic was very happy at Osma. He liked the quiet life there, the chance to pray and study and to help out from time to time in the country parishes. Even more, he appreciated his friendship with Bishop Diego. What a saint this was! What a lover of souls!
“If the Holy Father ever permits him to be a missionary to the Tartars, I want to go along, too,” Dominic told himself. “It would be a privilege to live and work with such a man for the rest of my days.”
But the years passed, and Bishop Diego was unsuccessful in all his attempts to be relieved of his duties in Osma. He was needed there, said the authorities. And friends and co-workers agreed. Reluctantly he stifled his heart’s desire to convert the Tartars—those savage tribes which lived along the Dnieper and Volga rivers in eastern Europe, and from time to time descended upon the Christian countries to the west with fire and sword.
“Lord, not my will but Thine be done!” he prayed.
Then one day there was great excitement in Osma. Bishop Diego was going away, although not to the Tartars. He was going to Denmark on important business for King Alfonso of Castile.
“It has something to do with a marriage for Prince Ferdinand,” people said.
“That’s right. King Alfonso has asked King Valdemar to let one of his daughters marry his son.”

“Yes. And he wants Bishop Diego to help bring matters about.”
So one morning in the year 1203, with Dominic as a traveling companion, the Bishop took his place among the dozens of learned priests and wealthy nobles who had been chosen by Alfonso as his ambassadors to the Danish court. But the imposing cavalcade had gone less than three hundred miles—indeed, had barely entered southern France—when scenes of great devastation met their eyes. Acres of fertile land lay blackened and desolate. Wayside shrines were broken. And one village after another lay in smoking ruins.
“What is it?” asked Dominic anxiously. “What’s happened here?”
The questions were soon answered by a little group of peasants who timidly approached the royal procession to beg for food. The heretics—commonly known as the Albigenses because their teachings had originated in the French town of Albi—had caused all the damage, they said. Two days ago a band of them had come this way. Finding a few men and women faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church, they had killed most of them, burned and pillaged their lands, then taken the children prisoner.
“Three of those little ones were my own grandsons!” an old man told Diego, tear