{"id":8137,"date":"2024-08-08T13:13:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T13:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/learn\/st-dominic\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T13:13:11","slug":"st-dominic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/st-dominic\/","title":{"rendered":"Hl. Dominikus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>[ad_1] St. Dominic Feast date: Aug 08 \u00c2\u00a0On Aug. 8, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of St. Dominic Guzman, who helped the cause of orthodoxy in the medieval Church by founding the Order of Preachers, also known as Dominicans.&quot;This great saint reminds us that in the heart of the Church a missionary fire must always burn,\u201d Pope Benedict XVI said in a February 2010 General Audience talk on the life of St. Dominic. 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In his life, the Pope\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-8137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":59867,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/a-dog-a-torch-and-a-saint-the-fiery-mission-of-st-dominic\/","url_meta":{"origin":8137,"position":0},"title":"A dog, a torch, and a saint: The fiery mission of St. Dominic","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"August 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cSt. Dominic of Guzman\u201d by Claudio Coello, circa 1685. \/ Credit: Claudio Coello, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Rome Newsroom, Aug 8, 2025 \/ 04:00 am (CNA). 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