St dominic and the rosary biography for kids

These 15 decades are divided into three parts with the recall of Our Lord's Life, Passion, and Glory in 15 mysteries. The first five mysteries are called Joyful because they brought joy into the hearts of men, showing us the Virgin Mary as Mother of the Child Jesus. The second five are called Sorrowful because these tell the suffering Our Divine Lord underwent for our Redemption.

Five decades make up the chaplet of beads. While we recite the prayers of a decade, we should meditate upon the mystery which it is meant to honor. The mysteries of the Rosary are the most salient points of the Gospel. The Rosary as we now know it comes from St. Dominic, the founder of the Order of Friars Preachers. In his time, the 13th century, heresies, which are the truths of the Faith mixed with error, were rampant, chief among them was one that denied the efficacy of the Sacraments.

Dominic strove to combat this heresy and he never missed a chance to enter a church to pray.

When was st dominic born

One day, about the year , he was in the church of Notre Dame de la Dreche in Toulouse, France, when he was very sad about the bad times. Our Lady appeared to him there, to comfort him and she gave him the prayer of Rosary with the instruction that it should be prayed to overcome heresy, which he did in obedience to her: To him we owe also the spread of the devotion which for many centuries has produced the most marvelous results in the Christian world: heresies have been uprooted, morals reformed, fortunes averted, wars ended.

Dominic is sometimes pictured with a dog, one of his symbols because: Before his mother conceived him, she saw in a vision that a dog with a burning torch in its mouth would come forth from her womb and set the world aflame. This, of course refers to his preaching, and the Order he founded, the Order of Preachers or Dominicans.

Some form of the Rosary had always been said.