sentences:  The Dominican nuns (second order) and tertiaries were also indebted to his zeal.He also did much to promote devotion to the rosary and to propagate the doctrine of Thomas Aquinas.Such were the services he rendered to the Holy See especially as regarded the Zouaves, that Pius IX, who was warmly attached to him, intended to make him a cardinal; but he was elected general of the order, on 7 June 1862.