Friday, May 18, 2012

Saints in the Way of St. Dominic

In our aspirancy guidelines to assist you to prepare yourself to possibly enter novitiate, we recommend that you get to know our older brothers and sisters who walked in the way of our holy father St. Dominic. These are only some of the many blesseds and saints of the 800 year tradition of the Dominicans. Ask their intercession together with the Queen of all the Saints, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and entrust your vocation to her to protect it and nurture it through deeper prayer and God's grace.

August 2 - Blessed Jane of Aza (mother of St. Dominic)
August 8 - HOLY FATHER DOMINIC
August 17 - St. Hyacinth
August 18 - Blessed Mannes (brother to St. Dominic)
August 23 - St. Rose of Lima
August 28 - Holy Father Augustine
September 4 - Blessed Catherine of Racconigi
September 6 - Blessed Bertrand of Garrigue
September 18 - St. Juan Macias
September 22 - Hyacinth Serrano Lopez & Companions
September 28 - St. Dominic Ibañez & Companions
October 4 - Holy Father Francis
October 5 - Blessed Raymund of Capua (spiritual director to St. Catherine of Siena)
October 7 - Our Lady of the Rosary (more)
October 9 - St. Louis Bertrand
October 19 - Blessed Agnes of Jesus
October 27 - Blessed Bartholomew of Vicenza
October 30 - Blessed Terence O'Brien & Blessed Peter O'Higgins (17th C. Irish Martyrs)
November 3 - St. Martin de Porres
November 7 - All Saints of the Order of Preachers
November 15 - Saint Albert the Great
November 24 - Saint Ignatius Delgado & Companions
November 25 - Saint Catherine of Alexandria
December 1 - Blessed John of Vercelli
December 16 - Bl. Sebastian Maggi
December 22 - Anniversary of the Approval of the Dominican Order
January 4 - Saint Zdislava
January 7 - Saint Raymond of Peñafort
January 15 - Saint Francis de Capillas & Companions
January 18 - Saint Margaret of Hungary
January 28 - Saint Thomas Aquinas
February 4 - Saint Catherine de Ricci
February 13 - Blessed Jordan of Saxony (Patron of Dominican Vocations)
February 18 - Blessed John of Fiesole (Fra Angelico)
February 24 - Blessed Constantius of Fabriano
April 20 - Saint Agnes of Montepulciano
April 28 - Saint Louis de Montfort
April 29 - Saint Catherine of Siena
April 30 - Saint Pius V
May 5 - Saint Vincent Ferrer
May 8 - Mary's Patronage over the Order of Preachers
May 10 - Saint Antoninus
May 13 - Blessed Imelda
May 21 - Blessed Hyacinth Marie Cormier (more)
May 29 - Blessed William Arnaud & Companions
June 4 - St. Peter Martyr & see also: The Blessings of St. Peter Martyr (& more)
June 8 - Blessed Diana and Blessed Cecilia
June 10 - Blessed John Dominici
June 18 - Blessed Osanna of Mantua
July 4 - Blessed Pier Georgio Frassati
July 9 - St. John of Cologne
July 22 - St. Mary Magdalene (Patroness of the Dominican Order)
These come from Bro. Peter Martyr Yungwirth OP's Dominican Saints 101 series, though incomplete right now, I wanted to get it up now. I will continue to update it as he adds them for the rest of the liturgical year.
Dominican Saints and Blesseds (Nashville Dominican Sisters)
Holy Dominicans (vocation booklet from Province of St. Joseph)