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Dominic was born to a poor, devout Spanish family around the year of Our Lord 1000. After working as a shepherd, he joined a monastery of the Benedictine Order. Dominic was ordained a priest, and eventually became abbot. When the King of Navarre attempted to claim some of the monastery’s lands, Dominic resisted, until he and two fellow monks were forced to flee to Castile. There the monks were welcomed by King Ferdinand I, who happily granted them the once-renowned monastery of Silos, which had fallen into disrepair. Dominic worked hard to restore the monastery, and soon gathered many devout new religious under his leadership. The holy abbot worked many miracles during his life, and was particularly known for freeing captives from the Moors. The walls of the monastery were festooned with the chains of grateful liberated Christians, and even after his death in the year of Our Lord 1073, Dominic continued to intercede powerfully for this patronage. Dominic is also a patron of expectant mothers, with his crozier traditionally brought to the beds of the Spanish queens to bless their labor, and Bl. Juana de Aza named her famous son St. Dominic after the holy abbot who answered her prayers to conceive a boy.
THE vigil of St. Thomas, apostle.
At Rome, the holy martyrs Liberatus and Bajulus.
At Alexandria, the holy martyrs Ammon, Zeno, Ptolemy, Ingen, and Theophilus, soldiers, who, standing near the tribunals, and seeing a Christian trembling under the torture and almost on the point of apostatizing, endeavored to encourage him by their looks and by signs, and when for this reason the whole people raised an outcry against them, they rushed forward, and declared themselves Christians. By their victory, Christ, who had given to them such fortitude, triumphed most gloriously.
At Gelduba, St. Julius, martyr.
In Arabia, the holy martyrs Eugene and Macarius, priests. For reproving Julian the Apostate for his impiety, they received a most severe scourging, were banished to a vast desert, and finally were put to the sword.
At Antioch, the birthday of St. Philogonius, bishop, who was called by the will of God from the practice of law to the government of that church. With the saintly bishop Alexander and other auxiliaries, he engaged the first combat for
the Catholic faith against Arius, and, being renowned for merits, rested in the Lord. His festival was commemorated by St. John Chrysostom with an excellent panegyric.
At Brescia, St. Dominic, bishop and confessor.
In Spain, the departure from this world of St. Dominic de Sylos, abbot, of the Order of St. Benedict, most renowned for the miracles he wrought for the deliverance of captives.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.