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Saint Dominic, OP (Spanish: Santo Domingo; 8 August 1170 – 6 August 1221), also known as Dominic de Guzmán (Spanish:), was a Castilian Catholic priest and the founder of the Dominican Order. He is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientists , and he and his order are traditionally credited with spreading and popularizing the rosary .
St. Dominic's Cathedral in Fuzhou: First established by Spanish Dominicans in 1864. Mother Marie-Anastasie; Everton F.C., originally named Saint Domingo's F.C. Religiosam vitam; Nos attendentes; Saint Dominic in Soriano, a miraculous painting of 1530; Saint Dominic, patron saint archive; San Domenico di Guzman, a 1997 oratorio based on Dominic ...
St. Dominic's Catholic Church is a historic parish in the Lower Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California, located at the corner of Bush and Steiner Streets. The parish was established by the Dominican Order in 1873, and the current church, built in the Gothic style, was finished in 1928.
The initial purpose behind the Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic was the preaching of penance; but under Dominican influences it leaned to the intellectual aspect of the faith and based its message on the exposition of the creed. This focus on penance remains a central part of the Dominican charism. [8] "In complementarity with brothers, sisters ...
Augustine Fangi (also, Augustine of Biella; 1430 – 22 July 1493) was an Italian Dominican friar and Catholic priest.He was commonly regarded in his time as a miracle worker, and, in serving as the prior of several of his Order's monasteries, was concerned with restoring and maintaining a faithful observance of the Rule of Saint Dominic. [3]
1923: Congregation of St. Rose of Lima, Oxford, MI (now Dominican Sisters of Peace) 1927: Eucharistic Missionaries of St. Dominic, New Orleans, LA (now Dominican Sisters of Peace) 1929: Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Akron, OH (now Dominican Sisters of Peace) 1946: Hartford, Ct 1950: Puerto Rico 1951: Abbeville, LA
Juana de Aza is the name gradually developed in hagiographical tradition for the mother of Saint Dominic and Bl. Manés de Guzmán.In the final form of this tradition, she is said to have been born in about 1135 in Haza and to have died at Caleruega (Dominic's birthplace) on 4 August 1205.
Dominic's special patronage thus became connected with pregnancy, and until the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931, his abbatial crozier was used to bless the queens of Spain, and was placed by their beds when they were in labor. [3] St. Dominic of Silos is patron saint of prisoners, pregnant women, and shepherds. [6]