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   Dominic rests for making perfect the life of its members and obtaining   
   the salvation of others.” For centuries, Dominicans have been   
   instrumental in spreading the rosary and emphasizing the Catholic   
   belief in the power of the rosary. Saint Dominic is spread devotion to   
   the Rosary, and used it to strengthen his own spiritual life.   
      
   Saint Dominic is also remembered for miracles (raising four people   
   from the dead) and miraculous visions. On one occasion, he received a   
   vision of a poor beggar, who he sought out the following day. Finding   
   the beggar, Dominic embraced him and said, “You are my companion and   
   must walk with me. If we hold together, no earthly power can withstand   
   us.” The beggar turned out to be Saint Francis of Assisi and the two   
   holy men became the closest of friends.   
      
   St Dominic died at the age of fifty-one, “exhausted with the   
   austerities and labours of his career”. He had reached the convent of   
   St Nicholas at Bologna, Italy, “weary and sick with a fever”. He   
   “made the monks lay him on some sacking stretched upon the ground” 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”.  He died at noon on 6 August 1221. His body   
   was moved to a simple sarcophagus in 1233. Under the authority of Pope   
   Gregory IX, Dominic was canonised in 1234. In 1267 Dominic’s remains   
   were moved to the shrine, made by Nicola Pisano and his workshop. The   
   feast of Saint Dominic is celebrated with great pomp and devotion in   
   Malta, in the old city of Birgu and the capital city Valletta. The   
   Dominican order has very strong links with Malta and Pope St. Pius V,   
   a Dominican friar himself, aided the Knights of St. John to build the   
   city of Valletta.   
      
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   Saint Quote:   
   “The first thing about the angels we ought to imitate is their   
   consciousness of the presence of God.”   
   --St. John Vianney   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   19 Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything   
   they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For   
   where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of   
   them.”  (Matthew 18:19,20)  RSVCE   
      
      
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   All Ye Who would the Christ Descry   
   By Prudentius (c 348 – c 413)   
   (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens)   
   The Renowned Poet   
      
   All you who would the Christ descry,   
   Lift up your eyes to Him on high:   
   There mortal gaze hath strength to see   
   The token of His Majesty.   
      
   A wondrous sign we there behold,   
   That knows not death nor groweth old,   
   Sublime, most high, that cannot fade,   
   That was ere earth and Heaven were made.   
      
   Here is the King the Gentiles fear,   
   The Jews’ most mighty King is here,   
   Promised to Abraham of yore,   
   And to his seed forevermore.   
      
   ‘Tis He the Prophets words foretold,   
   And by their signs shown forth of old.   
   The Father’s Witness hath ordained   
   That we should hear with faith unfeigned.   
      
   Jesu, to Thee our praise we pay,   
   To little ones revealed today,   
   With Father and Blest Spirit One   
   Until the ages’ course is done.   
      
   The Hymn Quicumque Christum quaeritis is the twelfth and last poem in   
   the Cathemerino of Prudentius, originally written in honour of the   
   Epiphany. Its 208 lines has furnished four hymns to the Roman   
   Breviary, Latin below the image.   
   On the Feast of the Transfiguration the verses above are used.   
   There is a short biography of Prudentius here:   
   https://anastpaul.com/2020/01/08/quote-s-of-the-day-8-january-ta   
   e-courage-it-is-i-and-bl-titus-zeman/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)