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Tag: Dominic

St. Catherine of Siena: Peacemaker

  If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze. St. Catherine of Sienna St. Catherine was a third-order Dominican, peacemaker and counselor to the Pope. She single-handedly ended the Avignon exile of the successors of Peter in the 14th century. She is the co-patron of Italy and of Europe. Born in… Read More ›

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St. Dominic & the Rosary

Dominic Guzman was born in 1170 in Calaroga, Castile (Spain) in an age of change. The sons of Mohammed had swept across the Mediterranean, turning Christian temples into Moorish mosques, leaving many regions of Spain under the Moorish yoke. At the age of 14, Dominic went to the University of Palencia and graduated with a… Read More ›

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