800 Years Dominicans

Posted on 17. Oct, 2007, in Church Teachings, SaintsNo Comments

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This year the Dominican Order is celebrating 800 years since it’s founding, by the Spanish Saint Dominic.  Here Tom McCarthy, who spent 6 years living in Rome as Secretary General of the Dominican Order, explains to Eileen Good how St. Dominic came to set up a group of preachers in response to a feeling that people had drifted away or deflected from Catholicism.