Today we celebrated the feast of St. Dominic who founded the Order of Preachers best known as the Dominicans. He founded the order in in the early 1200's and it was approved in 1216. The order's charism is that of preaching and to this day often make parish missions. St. Dominic, along with Bishop Diego de Acevedo, encounter and preached against the heresy of Albigensian. This heresy held that all things material were evil and denied the incarnation.
In addition to being a contemporary of St. Francis, St. Dominic introduced the Rosary as a form of prayer after he received a vision from Our Blessed Mother. She gave him instructions how to pray it. This account was affirmed by Pope Leo XIII and later Pope Pius XI
Additional Reading:
Insight Scoop: St. Dominic and the Friars Preachers
EWTN: St. Dominic Founder of Friars Preachers
Catholic Pages: St. Dominic and the Rosary
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