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As the Morning Star: The Life of St. Dominic by Wilms, Jerome, O.P. & A Dominican Sister of the Perpetual Rosary Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is As the Morning Star: The Life of St. Dominic about?

Life of St. Dominic, the founder of the order of Friars Preachers. Recommended to me by a 1st Order Dominican aspirant. Similarly to [Gillet, O.P.'s biography](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=9311), Wilms, O.P.'s discusses the rôle of the Albigensian heresy in the genesis of the Dominican Order ("III: Peacful Labors in Wartime", ref:1.135). St. Dominic (ref:1.142; cf. "[Whether heretics ought to be tolerated?](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/a/50372/1787)"): > delivered them [heretics] to the secular court, where they received the death penalty. On the way to their execution Dominic pleaded with the judge to spare one of the condemned, assuring him that the man would be converted. The judge granted pardon. [...] [St. Dominic] delivered the criminals to the civil court as a matter of duty, but the plea for pardon was the spontaneous act of his kindly nature. * * * That after seven hundred years his life is still the subject of historians' endeavors is a clear proof of the deep significance of St. Dominic's personality for his Order, for the clergy, and the entire Church. He lived in the late Middle Ages, when the Chair of Peter was occupied by popes lik

Who reads As the Morning Star: The Life of St. Dominic?

Author

Wilms, Jerome, O.P. & A Dominican Sister of the Perpetual Rosary Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Publisher

Mediatrix Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781953746078

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Christian, Christianity, Religion