The friars are members of the Order of Preachers, AKA "The Dominicans" and we are members of the Eastern Dominican Province. There are many… » More
The May 2011 issue of Columbia Magazine featured a story on three vocations stories of former athletes who left the field to enter the seminary or religious life. One of those featured is Dominican Brother Peter Junipero Hannah, O.P. of the Province of the Holy Name (Western Dominican Province). Bro. Peter, who golfed for the University of California… » More
This following excerpt is from Dominican Spirituality: Principles and Practice by Fr. William Aquinas Hinnebusch, O. P. and gives an account of our knowledge of the physical description of St. Dominic from a Dominican Sister named Cecilia. Blessed Cecilia was a young woman, not yet twenty, when she received her Dominican habit from St. Dominic at… » More