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Saint Dominic was born in 1170 to a Christian family of very noble European blood. At the age of seven, Saint Dominic's parents placed him under the tutelage of his maternal uncle, who was also a parish priest at the collegiate church of Gumiel de Izan, where he received his primary instructions which consisted mainly in reading from the Latin Fathers. At the age of 14, Saint Dominic left his uncle's care and enrolled into the schools of Palencia, with the course lasting 10 years. The first five or six years were used to study medieval arts courses including logic, and the rest of his time there he devoted to the study of theology. Soon after his ordination, he undertook his duties as Canon at the Osma Cathedral. Saint Dominic's bishop, Didacus d'Azevedo, took him on a diplomatic journey to Denmark. On this journey, they stopped to rest at Toulouse, France, where he met an Albigensian. He threw himself into showing this man his errors, and guiding him into the path of God and the true faith. After this, Saint Dominic had a passion to travel and preach the word of God, guiding the those who had lost their way to the true faith. He developed a way of doing this, by holding debates of sorts with Albigensians and those of other faiths or no faith. During his life, Saint Dominic raised the dead to life on three occasions.Â
Feast day: 4th August