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Dominic (SAINT the founder of the order)

SAINT, the founder of the order of the Dominicans; born in Calaof the Dominicans; born in Calahorra, in Old Castile, in 1170. He early distinguished himself by his zeal for the reform of canonical life and by his success as cess as a missionary among the Mohamattention having been directed to the Albigenses in the S. of France, he organized a preachers against heresy in Languedoc. mission of In 1215 he went to Rome to obtain the sanction of Pope Innocent III. to erect the mission into a new order of preaching friars. His request was only partiallly granted, and it was the succeeding Pope, who conferred full privileges on the Dominicans . He also appointed Dominic Master of the Sacred Palace or court preacher to the Vatican, an office which is still held by one of the order. order. Dominic died in Bologna in 1221, 1234 by Pope Gregory IX. St. Dominic is usually considered the founder of the Inquisition, but this claim is denied on the ground that two Cistercian monks were ap- 1198.