Angelic Warfare Confraternity
The Angelic Warfare devotion, also known as the Cord of St. Thomas, is named after a supernatural event in St. Thomas' life. When he entered the Dominican Order, his family, especially his mother Countess Theodora, opposed his vocation choice. They wanted him to be a politically powerful churchman, but Thomas couldn't be dissuaded from joining the poor and politically un-influential Dominicans. His superiors sent him from Naples to Paris for formation, and his mother, frustrated in keeping him out of the Dominicans, ordered her two sons.