Great Dominicans

  We all pursue happiness, but do we pursue Truth just as much?    Reading: John 13:16-20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0xrPCC73CE About a year ago, I was talking

St Pius V reigned from the Chair of St Peter for six years (1566-1572) during a period of remarkable social,

After a remarkable life, Bl. Adrian Fortescue died a martyr at the strike of an executioner's blade at Tower Hill

I know a few things about Cardinal Cajetan. Indeed, I know more about the sixteenth century Dominican philosopher and theologian

Bl John Liccio was born in Sicily in about 1430. We are told that he was a great preacher and

Savonarola was a Dominican friar who lived at a time when the Church had a great power and influence in

St. Antoninus Pierozzi was called Antonino – little Anthony – by his contemporaries because of his diminutive stature. He may

If you were told of someone, aged twenty-five, twice-widowed, who had lost all seven of her children before their teenage

It reads almost like a Disney film script, with a bit more religion thrown in. But is the tale too

Peter Cambiano was born in Chieri, in Piedmont, in 1320. He was drawn to the Dominicans by his devotion to

It is not surprising that the Order of Preachers has historically been the home to men renowned and remembered for

The Fourteenth Century Dominican, Henry Suso, is one of a trinity of famous Dominican “Founding Fathers” of German Mysticism, a