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Dominican Pleading with Queen Isabella

Dominican Pleading with Queen Isabella

by | Apr 20, 2015 | General, Photo Tour, Saints

The fifteenth century was the age of exploration, and the Dominicans became active missionaries to the newly discovered lands. An important advocate of Christopher Columbus’ great venture of 1492 was Bishop Diego de Deza, the Dominican bishop of Palencia, whose...
St. Antoninus

St. Antoninus

by | Apr 16, 2015 | General, Photo Tour, Saints

At sixteen, Antoninus (1389 – 1459) joined the Dominican Order and for the next forty years served as local or provincial superior in various Italian priories. He founded the convent of San Marco under the patronage of Cosimo de Medici and also under the...
St. Vincent Ferrer

St. Vincent Ferrer

by | Apr 15, 2015 | General, Photo Tour, Saints

Born in the province of Valencia, Spain, Vincent Ferrer (1350 – 1419) joined the Dominican friars in 1367. In Spain, France, and elsewhere he drew huge crowds among Jews and Muslims as well as Christians as he warned of the evils of the time and preached the...
Good Friday

Good Friday

by | Apr 3, 2015 | General, Saints

“They have pierced my hands and feet, I can count all my bones” (Ps 22:16-17). “I can count…”: how prophetic were these words! And yet we know that this body is a ransom. The whole of this body, its hands, its feet, its every bone, is a...
Holy Thursday

Holy Thursday

by | Apr 2, 2015 | General, Saints

The text below is an excerpt from a hymn composed by St. Thomas Aquinas. On the night of that Last Supper, seated with His chosen band, He, the Paschal Victim eating, first fulfils the Law’s command; then as Food to His Apostles gives Himself with His own Hand....
St. Agnes of Montepulciano

St. Agnes of Montepulciano

by | Apr 1, 2015 | General, Photo Tour, Saints

A Dominican nun, Agnes (1268 – 1317) was renowned for her diligence in prayer and her extraordinary charity. Although born of a wealthy family in Gracchiano, Italy, she believed that charity is the only way to acquire the virtue of humility: there is no humility...