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Image of St.Dominic which contain some symbols
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- 1The dog with a burning touch in its mouth.The Dog with burning torch in its mouth connects to the tradition about Dominic’s mother and her special dream about her unborn son. She dreamt that instead of giving birth to a little boy she give birth to a dog. The dog ran over the earth with the torch in its mouth, symbolising the vision that Dominic’ would one day undertake
- 2RosaryThe Rosary represents when Dominic received a vision from Our Lady who showed him a wreath of roses, representing the rosary. She told him to say the rosary daily, teach it to all who would listen, and eventually the true faith would win out. symbolising everyone should prayer in the name of god
- 3The star on Dominic's forheadA star on the forehead is one of the attributes given to St. Dominic because his godmother had a vision of his with a star shining from his forehead and shedding light over the entire world
- 4The BookThe Act of the confirmation of the Order of preachers is shown by St Dominic carrying the book.
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- Here is an image of St.Dominic which contain some symbols. Each symbol tells the reader info about him or the Dominican story select four symbols and describe what each symbol means.
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