The History of St. Dominic - Founder of the Friars Preachers #261307

In saying this, however, we are far from intending to represent the Saint as an advocate of religious toleration, a modern doctrine Of which, as now understood, no trace is to be found in any religious body before the Edict Of Nantes, and which in our own country received but partial application up to the date of Catholic Emanci pation. To look for it in the thirteenth century would be an anachronism as great as to look, during the same period, for Parliamentary Government. St. Dominic during his whole career was the champion of truth, and.