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men and women whose only crime was refusing to bow tothe Pope’s false doctrine.ST. DOMINIC (1170-1221) was the founder of theDominican Order of Preachers and they were at the verycutting edge of the terrible Inquisition. One of the missionsDominic set for his order was “the extinction of heresy.” eunscriptural and blasphemous “devotion of the Rosary” isusually attributed to Dominic. e practice of the Rosaryinvolves saying prayers to Mary that can legitimately beaddressed to Almighty God alone. e Dominicans wreckedhavoc on the Albigensians and the Waldensians and theAnabaptists and the Lollards and anyone else that refused tobow to the pope. e blood-thirst of the Dominicans earnedfor them the stigma of ‘Domini Canes,’ or the ‘Lord’sDogs’” (omas Armitage, A History of the Baptists, I, pp.311-112). It was the Dominicans who were at the forefront ofthe attempt to stop the translation of the Bible into commonlanguages. e Dominicans headquartered at the Blackfriars’monastery in London (so named because of the black robesworn by the Dominican friars) called a Synod against Bibletranslator John Wycliffe in England and made every effort tostop Wycliffe’s preaching and translation work. Failing in this,countless copies of the Wycliffe Scriptures were confiscatedand burned and hundreds of those who read them werelikewise burned.IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA was the co-founder of the Jesuitsor e Society of Jesus, which was established on September27, 1540, by Pope Paul III and was a major part of the brutalCounter Reformation. Loyola’s Jesuits took a vow ofcomplete, unquestioning submission to the pope and to thesuperiors of their order. “…let every one persuade himselfthat he who lives under obedience should be moved anddirected, under Divine Providence, by his superior, JUST ASIF HE WERE A CORPSE, which allows itself to be movedand led in any direction.” e Jesuits plotted, and oensucceeded in, the violent overthrow of governments and the411