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Witnessing the success of the Cathar movement in southern France , Dominic urged those in charge of combating the " heresy " to practice a more exemplary standard of spiritual life. He eventually took this mission on himself, living an ascetic lifestyle and debating the Cathars in public disputes. He also supported the military campaigns against the Cathars during the Albigensian Crusade.

At Dominic's request, the Order of Preachers was formally established by Pope Honorius III in , to preach in conquered Cathar territory and to combat the spread of heresy.

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Dominic's role, if any, in the Inquisition is a subject of debate. His friend and protector, the future Pope Gregory IX , initiated the papal Inquisition under Dominican supervision a few years after Dominic's death, and any personal involvement by Dominic himself would have been at the local level in southern France. The Dominican Order would go on to play a major role in the Catholic intellectual tradition, in which it is still active today.

Dominic is the patron saint of astronomers, the falsely accused, scientists, and the Dominican Republic. His feast day in the Catholic Church is August 8. In the earliest sources, Dominic's parents are not named, but the story is told that before his birth, his mother dreamed that a dog leaped from her womb carrying a torch in its mouth, and "seemed to set the earth on fire.

A later source, still of the [thirteenth century]], gives the names of Dominic's mother and father as Juana de Aza and Felix.