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  • 'St Maria Goretti, a Catholic Colouring book', 'Modern Saints and their Faces' which includes the stories of St Maria Goretti, St Laura Vicuna who was murdered by her mother's 'paramour' after not succumbing to his advances, and eventually her mother returned to the Faith and St Dominic

    A critique of the “All That I Am” programme for schools Catholic Mom of 10 2009

  • In 1918 there followed the foundation of the Guld of St Joseph and St Dominic at Ditchling -a fraternity of Catholic craftsmen, bound by their common faith and philosophy of work and owning land, chapel, workshops and houses in common.

    H.D.C. Pepler Part One 2008

  • Among the first of these, in 1205, was the famous Dominic Guzman, a Spanish monk who went on to found the Order of Preaching Friars later to become the Order of St Dominic, whose members still later manned the Holy Inquisition.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • Among the first of these, in 1205, was the famous Dominic Guzman, a Spanish monk who went on to found the Order of Preaching Friars later to become the Order of St Dominic, whose members still later manned the Holy Inquisition.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • He had not blemished the world, like St Dominic with his inquisition, he had not been an eighteen-foot giant with cannibal proclivities, like St Christopher, and he had not accidentally killed the spectators at his death, like St Catherine.

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

  • The saintly Italian was opposed to the warlike doctrines of St Dominic; he made peace very frequently between the two parties known as Guelfs and Ghibellines.

    Heroes of Modern Europe Alice Birkhead

  • It was restored in 919 by Fernan Gonzalez, and in the 11th century became celebrated throughout Europe, under the rule of St Dominic or Domingo.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • Assuredly, St Francis crows over St Dominic somewhere in the courts of Heaven; his friars never feared for their skins, as they travelled blithely into the heat of

    Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

  • In the Entombment, which hangs on the opposite wall, St Dominic comes round the corner full of grievous amaze and tenderest sympathy, but with no sense of shock or intrusion, for was he not "famigliar di Cristo"?

    The Roadmender Michael Fairless 1885

  • Beneath the principal picture there is a row of seven small ones, forming a border, and representing various incidents in the life of St Dominic. '

    The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870

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