In the apse of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, just to the right of the chair of St. Peter, stands an 18-foot statue of St. Dominic de Guzman. Erected nearly 500 years after the Spanish saint’s ...

Pope Francis prays at the tomb of St. Dominic at the Cathedral of St. Peter in Bologna, Italy, in this Oct. 1, 2017, file photo. In a message commemorating the 800th anniversary of the death of St.

As the feast day of St. Dominic de Guzman is celebrated Tuesday, Aug. 8, members of the Dominican order and thousands of Catholic laity are continuing a nine-month novena before heading to Washington, ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The missionary witness of St. Dominic de Guzman, founder of the Order of Preachers, known as the Dominican Friars, was underlined by Pope Benedict XVI during his General ...

This article originally appeared in the December 2, 1916 issue of America to commemorate the Order of Preachers’ 700th Anniversary on December 22, 1916. To have had a saint for a mother, not merely a ...

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