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 praised the Dominican charisms of preaching and missionary discipleship in a letter marking the 800th anniversary of the death of the order’s founder, St. Dominic Guzman. “Together with ...

In the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Lord inspired the Spaniard, Dominic Guzman, to become a prophet and preach to quench the spiritual thirst, to satisfy the sacramental hunger and to heal ...

On Aug. 8, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of St. Dominic Guzman, who helped the cause of orthodoxy in the medieval Church by founding the Order of Preachers, also known as Dominicans.

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.

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 ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis praised the Dominican charisms of preaching and missionary discipleship in a letter marking the 800th anniversary of the death of the order’s founder, St. Dominic Guzman.