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Saint Dominic, the man for freedom, who was born between 1171 1nd 1173 in the Castilian villae of Calruega as a son of Felix de Guzman and Jane of Aza of the Spanish nobility. At that time Christian Spain was still struggling to free itself from Moorish occupation. He joined the cathedral chapter of Osma as a student. Here Dominic lived in a strictly rule of St. Augustine which caters to the poor as well as to the noble people. In 1203, he accompanied Bishop Diego de Azevedo to travel to Denmark to arrange a marriage of a son of Alfonso VIII, King of Castille to a Danish princes. As he travelled through southern France, they encountered former Christians who become alienated from the Roman catholic church and converted to the religion of the Cathari (Pure Ones), often called Albigensians from their stronghold at Albi, which originated from gnosticism, a christian cult. He learned from an innkeeper about an ideological doctrine of salvation of the "Perfect or Pure" could be achieved by an extreme asceticism and poverty. Dominic was impressed by this doctrine, until he finished his study at Osma. Having the experiences of living among the Jews and the Moorish he understood that he needed to practiced this doctrine and started his own group if clergy men. The name of this reformer clergy group is the Dominicans.