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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 .
Dominic Savio (Italian: Domenico Savio; 2 April 1842 – 9 March 1857) was an Italian student of John Bosco who became a Catholic saint. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14, possibly from pleurisy. [5]
The Dominicans wanted a chapel for their founder to match the splendor of the other existing chapels. The fresco on the cupola of the apse Glory of St Dominic (1613–1615), depicting the ascent of the saint into heaven, is a baroque masterpiece by Guido Reni, the artistic value of this fresco matches that of the underlying Ark of St Dominic.
Saint Dominic of Silos (1000–1073), Spanish monk; Saint Dominic de la Calzada (1019–1109), Spanish saint; Saint Dominic (1170–1221), founder of the Dominican Order; Saint Dominguito del Val (died 1250), child martyr in Spain; Saint Dominic Savio (1842–1857), Italian schoolboy; Vietnamese Martyrs, canonized by John Paul II, 15 of whom ...
The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) by Giovanni di Paolo, c. 1460 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Lay Dominicans are governed by their own rule, the Rule of the Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic, promulgated by the Master in 1987. [86] It is the fifth Rule of the Dominican Laity; the first was issued in 1285. [87]
Jordan died, at the age of forty-seven, in a shipwreck returning from Palestine, where he had been visiting the local monasteries of the Order. The shipwreck occurred off the coast of Syria on 13 February 1237. [7] Jordan was buried in the Dominican Church of St. John in Akko, in present-day Israel. His feast day is 13 February. [8]
The list of saints of the Dominican Order here is alphabetical. It includes Dominican saints from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Since the founder of the Dominicans, Saint Dominic, was canonized in 1234, there have been 69 other Dominicans canonized.
The following friars belonging to the order have been proclaimed saints throughout history (for women and Third Order saints see List of Dominican saints and beatified): Saint Dominic (1170–1221), portrayed in the Perugia Altarpiece by Fra Angelico. Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia.