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This beautiful Rosary features a sculptural portrait on its sterling silver center and is finished with smooth, ebony-colored wooden beads and an elegant sterling silver crucifix.
About St. Dominic . . . Dominic was born in Spain to Felix Guzman and Bl. Joan of Aza in 1170. He was trained for the priesthood by a priest-uncle, studied the arts and theology, and became a canon of the cathedral at Osma, where there was an attempt to revive the apostolic common life of the Acts of the Apostles. On a journey through France with his bishop, he came face to face with the then virulent Albigensian heresy at Languedoc. Dominic sensed the need for the Church to combat this heresy, and was commissioned to be part of the preaching crusade against it. He continued this work for ten years, being successful with the ordinary people but not with the leaders. His fellow preachers gradually became a community, and in 1215 he founded a religious house at Toulouse, the beginning of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans). His ideal, and that of his Order, was to link organically a life with God, study and prayer in all forms, with a ministry of salvation to people by the word of God.
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