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Lisa

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Ok, here's another thread of Dominican Saints/Blesseds! Don't just list them, please include a few lines or a little blurb about them. Link to a website for more information!

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St. Dominic (duh)
Founder of the order. After studying for many years at the university, he sold his books to give money to the poor during a famine, saying "Would you have me study off these dead skins when men are dying of hunger?" was originally a Canon Regular, which is where the Dominican's white tunic came from. Founded the order of preachers- both the friars and contemplative nuns. His preaching is said to have increased devotion to the rosary... legend even has it that Mary gave it to him! :love:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05106a.htm

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Blessed Jordan of Saxony (new favorite after reading "The new wine of Dominican spirituality: A drink called happiness")
He was an avid preacher who was said to have inspired 1,000 men to join the order. Patron of Dominican Vocations. He also established the Solemn Salve Regina after compline everyday when he was the 2nd Master General of the Order.

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[font="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"] More perhaps than any of the early Dominicans Jordan of Saxony was fond of the image of drinking. We find it recurring, for example, in a number of his sermons which have survived. On one occasion, preaching with characteristic vigour, Jordan speaks of "the strength of wine" which, he notes, "gives a person a lift" because "wine brings delight and puts a man at his ease." This idea is repeated in another sermon where, after a brief, memorable reference to "the wine of hope" we hear once again of "[the] good wine which," according to the preacher, "puts a man at his ease, gives him a lift, and stops him feeling his sorrows."[/size][/font]

[font="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"] Just over fifty of Jordan's letters have survived, and the word "joy" occurs on almost every page. Most of these letters were sent by Jordan to his beloved Dominican friend, the enclosed contemplative, Diana d'Andalo .
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http://www.dominicains.ca/english/Documents/Articles/murray_drinking.htm
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http://www.dominicans.ie/friars/history-and-heritage/saints-blesseds-a-others/blessed-jordan-of-saxony.html

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[quote name='FutureSister2009' timestamp='1309359710' post='2260247']
I really only know of St. Dominic. We should do Franciscans and Carmelites too!
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start it up!!

Here's a website on Max's Fra Angelico and one of his frescoes:
[url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01483b.htm"]http://www.newadvent...then/ 01483b.htm[/url]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Fra_Angelico_012.jpg[/img]

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OnlySunshine

My 2 favorite Dominican saints are St. Catherine of Siena and St. Rose of Lima. St. Rose desired to emulate the sufferings of St. Catherine. Both were perpetual virgins and members of the Third Order Dominican tertiaries. :)

The Mystical Marriage between Catherine and Christ

[img]http://saints.sqpn.com/wp-content/gallery/saint-catherine-of-siena/saint-catherine-of-siena-13.jpg[/img]

The beautiful St. Rose of Lima with Infant Jesus

[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ymg9VAvJo3E/THHxOjtmYRI/AAAAAAAAKSk/S-TlBJW0QLo/s400/8_23_St.RoseofLima.jpg[/img]

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[quote name='Maximilianus' timestamp='1309357789' post='2260239']
Blessed Fra Angelico , Artist
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:like:

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faithcecelia

I must confess, I know very little of the Dominican saints, except St Catherine of Sienna who I am uncomfortable with due to her being an 'idol' on some pro-ana sites :sad:

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[quote name='faithcecelia' timestamp='1309379503' post='2260390']
I must confess, I know very little of the Dominican saints, except St Catherine of Sienna who I am uncomfortable with due to her being an 'idol' on some pro-ana sites :sad:
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Just google'd pro-ana (had never heard of them in my life, Thanks be to God!) This makes me extremely sad.

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He's not blessed or beatified, but I like Edward Dominic Fenwick. He was the first Dominican friar in the US (had to go to Belgium, I think it was, to enter, and when the French Revolutionary soldiers invaded the place, the native friars fled and left this American in charge of the priory while he was still a student - they figured the French would be friendlier to an American who had seen the American Revoultion). He became the first bishop of Cincinnati and began construction of the Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains. He also recruited...

Samuel Mazzuchelli to work as a missionary in "the old Northwest" - Minnesota, Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and thereabouts. And Mazzuchelli is venerable, I believe, at this point.

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OnlySunshine

[quote name='Lisa' timestamp='1309379943' post='2260395']
Just google'd pro-ana (had never heard of them in my life, Thanks be to God!) This makes me extremely sad.
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Yes, it really is a shame that she is portrayed that way. She wasn't willfully starving herself like anorexia patients do. She couldn't eat anything but the Eucharist. She tried several times and always got a burning sensation in her throat and choked. Those were the days before feeding tubes. I'm sure that if she were alive now, medical intervention would have taken place.

I wonder if St. Clare is portrayed the same way? Her story is a little different, though.

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faithcecelia

[quote name='Lisa' timestamp='1309379943' post='2260395']
Just google'd pro-ana (had never heard of them in my life, Thanks be to God!) This makes me extremely sad.
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Sadly I have watched a number of friends battle eating disorders, its such a cruel disease, especially when you see people encouraging each other to become more and more ill.:sad:

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faithcecelia

[quote name='MaterMisericordiae' timestamp='1309380741' post='2260409']
Yes, it really is a shame that she is portrayed that way. She wasn't willfully starving herself like anorexia patients do. She couldn't eat anything but the Eucharist. She tried several times and always got a burning sensation in her throat and choked. Those were the days before feeding tubes. I'm sure that if she were alive now, medical intervention would have taken place.

I wonder if St. Clare is portrayed the same way? Her story is a little different, though.
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Its a while since I read it, but 'From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls:A History of Self-Starvation' is a very interesting book. Very, very few who claimed to survive on nothing or just the Eucharist actually did, and almost always gave in withing days of close observation, even centuries ago.

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