Favorite Dominican Saints

[Lisa]

Blessed Imelda- kinda Dominican, I'm not sure if she officially was

[font="Arial"]When she was nine, she was placed, at her own wish, in the Dominican convent to be trained there by the nuns. Her special devotion was to the Eucharistic presence of Our Lord at Mass and in the tabernacle. To receive Our Lord in Holy Communion became the consuming desire of her heart, but the custom of the place and time had fixed twelve as the earliest age for a first communion. She would sometimes exclaim: "Tell me, can anyone receive Jesus into his heart and not die? " [/font]

[font="Arial"]When she was eleven years old she was present with the rest of the community at the Ascension Day Mass. All the others had received their communion: only Imelda was left unsatisfied. The nuns were preparing to leave the church when some of them were startled to see what appeared to be a Sacred Host hovering in the air above Imelda, as she knelt before the closed tabernacle absorbed in prayer. Quickly they attracted the attention of the priest who hurried forward with a paten on which to receive It. In the face of such a miracle he could not do otherwise than give to Imelda her first communion, which was also her last. For the rapture with which she received her Lord was so great that it broke her heart: she sank unconscious to the ground, and when loving hands upraised her, it was found that she was dead. [/font]

Edited June 30, 2011 by Lisa

[Lisa]

St. Albert the Great...

Convinced to enter religious life after a personal visit by Mary! He was a great scholar and wanted to know everything about everything. Taught Thomas Aquinas. Asked to be a bishop by the pope. During the exercise of his duties he enhanced his reputation for humility by refusing to ride a horse—in accord with the dictates of the Dominican order—instead walking back and forth across his huge diocese. This earned him the affectionate name, "boots the bishop," from his parishioners.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/AlbertusMagnus.jpg[/img]

Edited July 1, 2011 by Lisa

[Lisa]

John of Cologne

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John of Cologne was a Dominican parish priest in a nearby village. Hearing of the danger of his fellow priests, he disguised himself and attempted to be of comfort to them Secretly he ministered to these captives and brought the sacraments to them. Eventually John himself was taken captive. In the end, nineteen priests and brothers -- many Franciscan friars – along with the Dominican, John, were tortured, mocked in public, stripped of their habits, mutilated and hanged to death in a barn.
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[Luigi]

[quote name='Lisa' timestamp='1309537977' post='2261602']
St. Albert the Great...

Convinced to enter religious life after a personal visit by Mary! He was a great scholar and wanted to know everything about everything. Taught Thomas Aquinas. Asked to be a bishop by the pope. During the exercise of his duties he enhanced his reputation for humility by refusing to ride a horse—in accord with the dictates of the Dominican order—instead walking back and forth across his huge diocese. This earned him the affectionate name, "boots the bishop," from his parishioners.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/AlbertusMagnus.jpg[/img]
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He was [i]quite[/i] a scholar, interested in all the sciences. He is said to be the last person to "know everything that could be known" in the age in which he lived.