Dominicans, Dominican Order, Order of Preachers, Spain, Albigensianism, Albigensian Crusade 

All who have seen Leonard von Matt's previous pictorial biographies of the saints will welcome this new addition to the series, which is yet a masterpiece on its own account. Nearly one hundred and sixty photographs together with Father Vicaire's text reproduce for the reader and traveller of today the surroundings and background of the Saint as they must have been some seven-and-a-half centuries ago. With Saint Dominic we travel the roads and countryside of medieval France, Italy and Spain on his preaching missions, finding as we go signs pointing to his childhood upbringing and the full flowering of his character as a man.

it is no small triumph, perhaps even a little miracle, that the authors have - without exaggeration or distortion of the truth, but letting the facts and scenes speak for themselves - succeeded in catching something of the spirit of Saint Dominic himself, so that the book comes alive and we can see not only how great was his influence and how dearly he was loved by his followers, but also why.