The list of saints of the Dominican Order here is alphabetical. It includes Dominican saints from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Since the founder of the Dominicans, Saint Dominic, was canonized in 1234, there have been 69 other Dominicans canonized.
The Order of Preachers, commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian priest named Dominic de Guzmán. It was approved by Pope Honorius III via the papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216. Members of the order, who are referred to as Dominicans, generally display the letters OP after their names, standing for Ordinis Praedicatorum, meaning 'of the Order of Preachers'. Membership in the order includes friars, nuns, active sisters, and lay or secular Dominicans. More recently, there have been a growing number of associates of the religious sisters who are unrelated to the tertiaries.
Lorenzo Ruiz, also called Saint Lorenzo of Manila, was a Filipino Catholic layman and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. A Chinese Filipino, he became his country's protomartyr after his execution in Japan by the Tokugawa shogunate during its persecution of Japanese Christians in the 17th century. Lorenzo Ruiz is the patron saint of, among others, the Philippines and the Filipino people.
Francis Fernándezde Capillas was a Spanish Dominican friar who went as a missionary to Asia. He died in China as a martyr. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 1 October 2000, as one of the 120 Martyrs of China.
The Society of Foreign Missions of Paris is a Catholic missionary organization. It is not a religious institute, but an organization of secular priests and lay persons dedicated to missionary work in foreign lands.
Vicente Liêm of Peace or Vinh Sơn Phạm Hiếu Liêm was a Tonkinese Dominican friar venerated as a saint and martyr by the Catholic Church along with other Vietnamese Martyrs in 1988.
Vietnamese Martyrs, also known as the Martyrs of Tonkin and Cochinchina, collectively Martyrs of Annam or formerly Martyrs of Indochina, are saints of the Catholic Church who were canonized by Pope John Paul II. On June 19, 1988, thousands of overseas Vietnamese worldwide gathered at St. Peter's Square for the celebration of the canonization of 117 Vietnamese Martyrs, an event organized by Monsignor Trần Văn Hoài. Their memorial in the current General Roman Calendar is on November 24 as Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions, although many of these saints have a second memorial, having been beatified and inscribed on the local calendar prior to the canonization of the group.
The Order of Saint Augustine, abbreviated OSA, is a mendicant religious order of the Catholic Church. It was founded in 1244 by bringing together several eremitical groups in the Tuscany region who were following the Rule of Saint Augustine, written by Saint Augustine of Hippo in the fifth century.
Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia, OP was a Spanish Dominican priest and missionary. After teaching at the Colegio de Santo Tomas in Manila, he went to Japan in 1623, where he ministered incognito to the Catholic community for about ten years. Betrayed by an apostate, he was captured and executed. His feast day is 28 September.
The 17 Thomasian Martyrs were the 12 Dominican priests, 1 Franciscan priest and 3 Dominican bishops who became administrators, professors, or students in the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, they are venerated in the Catholic Church regarded them as a martyrs and declared as a saints and blesseds by several popes throughout the 20th and 21st century, All of them gave up their lives for their Christian faith, some in Japan, others in Vietnam, and in the 20th century, in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila was among the lay companions of the Thomasian Martyrs of Japan, their feast day is celebrated every year on November 6.
Saint John or St. John usually refers to either John the Baptist or John the Apostle.
Peter Sanz was a Catalan Dominican friar who was sent as a missionary bishop to China. He was declared a martyr and canonized by the Catholic Church.
Blessed Alfonso Navarrete O.P, also known as Alfonso Navarrete-Benito, sometimes latinised as Alphonsus, (1571–1617) was a Spanish nobleman, Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and missionary in the Philippines (1598–1610) and in Japan (1611-death), active during the anti-Christian persecutions of early Tokugawa Japan, in the Shogunate of Hidetada. Celebrated for his social work he has been called the Vincent de Paul of Japan and at some point became Master of the Order of Preachers in the country. He was executed by beheading in the Ōmura Domain on the orders of the Daimyo Ōmura Sumiyori on the 1st of June 1617.
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