St.+Dominic

= Patron Saint of Astronomers =

===//**Saint Dominic** (Spanish: Santo Domingo), also known as **Dominic of Osma** and **Dominic of Caleruega** (occasionally **Calaruega**), often called **Dominic de Guzmán** and **Domingo Félix de Guzmán**//===

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Early life

 * ====//Saint Dominic was born in calaruega Spain on 1170 of a wealthy family//====
 * ====//He was named after Saint Dominic of Silos//====
 * ====//a local author asserts that Dominic's father was an honoured and wealthy man in his village//====
 * ====//before his birth his mother dreamed that a dog leapt from her womb carrying a torch in its mouth, and "seemed to set the earth on fire".//====
 * ====Dominic was educated in the schools of palencia,afterwards a university, where he devoted six years to the to the arts and four to theology====
 * ====There he become [|prior][|superior] of the chapter, which was noted for its strict adherence to the rule of St. Benedict====
 * ====was the founder of the Friars Preachers, popularly called the Dominicans or Order of Preachers (OP), which became famous for its role in the Inquisition.====
 * ====Once when dominic become discouraged with the slow progress of his work,Our Lady appeared to him with a beautiful wreath of roses====
 * ====She asked him to say the rosary everydayand to teach the people to say the rosary everyday====

//Services//

 * ====Dominic preached against the Albigensians (heresy) and helped reform the Cistercians====
 * ====Dominic spent the last years of this [|life] organizing the order, traveling all over Italy, [|Spain] and [|France] preaching and attracting new members and establishing new houses.====
 * ====He went to rome and told the pope that he wanted to established a religious order whose duties would be preaching and teaching.====
 * ====Dominic spent the last years of this [|life] organizing the order, traveling all over Italy, [|Spain] and [|France] preaching and attracting new members and establishing new houses====

Legacy

 * ====He subjected himself and his companions to the monastic rules of prayerand penance meanwhile bishop Foulques gave them written authority to preach throughout the territory of Toulouse====
 * ====Dominic died at the age of fifty-one, according to Guiraud "exhausted with the austerities and labours of his career".[34 He had reached the convent of St.Nicholas at Bologna, Italy, "weary and sick with a fever".[35 Guiraud states that Dominic "made the monks lay him on some sacking stretched upon the ground"[36 and that "the brief time that remained to him was spent in exhorting his followers to have Charity, to guard their humility, and to make their treasure out of poverty".[37 He died at noon on 6 August 1221.[38====
 * ====He was canonized in 1234 and is the Patron Saint of Astronomers [|Feast day] is August 8====

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Prayer for Saint Dominic
=== O God, Who hast enlightened Thy Church by the eminent virtues and preaching of Saint Dominic, Thy confessor and our father: mercifully grant that by his prayers we may be provided against all temporal necessities, and daily improve in all spiritual good. Through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen. ===

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