Charity - Dominican Friars

Death of St. Dominic

by jacob.df | Feb 12, 2015 | General, Photo Tour, Saints

On August 6, 1221, less than five years after the Holy See formally confirmed the founding of the Order of Preachers, Dominic died in Bologna, the site of one of the Dominicans’ principal university houses and schools of theology. Just before his death Dominic...

St. Dominic Offers Himself as Ransom

by jacob.df | Jan 12, 2015 | General, History, Photo Tour, Saints

A second example of Dominic’s heroic charity occurred while he was still a student in Palencia. To secure the freedom of a man held in slavery by the Moors, Dominic, whose funds had been exhausted during the time of the famine, offered to sell himself as ransom...

St. Dominic Sells His Books

by jacob.df | Jan 9, 2015 | General, Photo Tour, Saints

Throughout his life Dominic preached charity and acted accordingly. In 1190, while he was studying in Palencia, a famine devastated all of Spain. Palencia suffered with the rest of the country, and people died of starvation in the streets. Moved with pity at the sight...