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 with scrupulous  diligence  and  by  methods  calculated  to persuade. This we  command."  It  was  singularly  fitting that  this  apostolic  commission  should  have  been  given  to the  sons  of  Dominic.  The  saint,  according  to  a  tradition, used  to  add  the  Name  of  Jesus  to  the  Hail  Mary,  a  practice not  then  adopted  in  the  Church.  The  successor  of  St. Dominic,  Blessed  Jordan,  composed  the  Little  Office  of  the Most  Holy  Name,  recited  even  to-day  by  his  children.  So dear  was  this  Name  to  him  that  he  used  to  sing  five  psalms, the  initial  letters  of  which  spelled  the  name  of  Jesus. Blessed  Jordan,  speaking  of  his  contemporary,  Fr.  Henry, O.P.,  of  Cologne,  says:  "He  used  to  advise  all  Christian people to  practise  devotion  to  the  Holy  Name  of  Jesus." The  martyred  Dominican,  St.  Peter,  who  died  in  1252,  was accustomed  to  gather  pious  people  together  to  sing  the praises  of  the  Adorable  Name.  This  devotion  of  the  first sons  of  Dominic  to  the  Divine  Name  may  have  been  known to  the  Sovereign  Pontiff  Gregory  N.  At  any  rate  he knew  that  the  Friars  Preachers  spoke  with  the  zeal  of their  Founder,  whose  life  and  death  were  still  fresh  in  their minds;  he  knew  that  all  Europe  resounded  with  their preaching;  he  knew  that  the  office  of  preaching,  as  their  special work,  was  in  perpetuity  given  to  them  by  apostolic authority;  and,  therefore,  what  more  wise  provision  could be  made  than  that  they  should  receive  the  perpetual  commission of  preaching  greater  reverence  for  the  Name  of God?

Not satisfied  merely  with  preaching,  the  Dominicans everywhere erected  in  their  churches  an  altar  to  the  Holy Name. This devotion  continued  to  be  cultivated  among the sons  and  daughters  of  Dominic. Blessed Henry  Suso, O.P., who  died  in  1365,  cut  the  letters  of  the  Sacred  Name into his  flesh. St. Catharine  of  Siena,  whose  death  occurred in  1380,  began  all  her  letters,  "  In  the  Name  of  Jesus Crucified." To give  permanency  to  the  devotion,  societies or confraternities  were  established  in  Dominican  churches. Naturally these,  in  the  beginning,  had  not  that  definite organization which  subsequent  Papal  Constitutions  gave