Catholic Heroes . . . St. Dominic
By DEB PIROCH On being threatened with death for preaching to the heretical Albigensians, they asked St. Dominic what he would have done had they captured him. His answer was:“I would have asked you not to kill me all at once, but to cut me up member by member, so as to give me a lingering martyrdom. Then, before you plucked out my eyes, I would ask you to hold before me each part you had cut from my body. After all that, you could let the rest of my body roll about in its own blood or you could kill me altogether” —First biographer, Jordan of Saxony, who knew St. Dominic.Sense of humor he must have had. Born of…Continue Reading