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\n \u201cSt. Dominic of Guzman\u201d by Claudio Coello, circa 1685. \/ Credit: Claudio Coello, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Rome Newsroom, Aug 8, 2025 \/ 04:00 am (CNA).<\/p>\n

The first image to greet visitors to the basilica containing the tomb of St. Dominic in Bologna, Italy, is a mosaic of the saint next to a dog carrying a flaming torch in its mouth.<\/p>\n

This is not a depiction of a pyromaniacal game of fetch but a reference to a dream that foretold the 13th-century preacher\u2019s mission in the world \u2014 to be the bearer of divine fire across Europe, illuminating the darkness of heresy and sin with truth and charity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen St. Dominic\u2019s mother, Blessed Jane of Aza, was pregnant, she had a dream of a dog with a torch in its mouth running around the world and setting everything on fire. She went to the monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos and asked a monk what it meant. He replied that the child in her womb would be a great preacher who would set the world ablaze with the fire of his words,\u201d Dominican Father Ezra Sullivan, professor at the Angelicum University in Rome, told CNA.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, the word \u2018Dominican\u2019 is a play on the Latin, Domini canes<\/em>, which means \u2018dogs of the Lord,\u2019\u201d Dominican Father Thomas Petri, former dean and vice president of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., explained.<\/p>\n

Throughout history St. Dominic has been depicted in paintings and statues standing beside a canine companion.<\/p>\n

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The \u201cDomini Canis\u201d (Latin: \u201cDog of the Lord\u201d) of St. Dominic, depicting a dog holding in its mouth a lit torch. A depiction of the vision of St. Jane of Aza, St. Dominic\u2019s mother, as recounted in the Libellus of Jordan of Saxony (d. 1237), St. Dominic\u2019s first biographer and successor: Before his mother conceived him, she saw in a vision that she would bear in her womb a dog who, with a burning torch in his mouth and leaping from her womb, seemed to set the whole earth on fire (\u201cDomini Canis,\u201d detail from \u201cSanto Domingo de Guzm\u00e1n\u201d by Claudio Coello, circa 1685). Credit: Claudio Coello, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cOne source recounts that the dog Blessed Jane saw in her vision was a greyhound. That seems right to me,\u201d Petri said. \u201cSt. Dominic should be associated with breeds that are fast and useful for herding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cImitating Christ himself, St. Dominic is a hound nipping at your heels to bring you to God,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the early 13th century, the Church was experiencing increasing devotion among the lay faithful that was unmatched by the clergy. At a time when bishops, priests, and monks were living extravagantly and rarely preaching, St. Dominic came to see that the Church needed priests who lived in poverty but who were also preachers of grace and truth, especially in the face of heretical cults that were leaching the faithful away from the Church of Jesus Christ,\u201d Petri explained.<\/p>\n

St. Dominic Guzman was born in Caleruega, Spain, on Aug. 8, 1170. Throughout his life, he is said to have converted some 100,000 people through his preaching missions. He spread the devotion to the rosary and played a key role in doctrinal debates combating the Albigensian heresy, a revival of Manichaeism, which had taken hold in southern France.<\/p>\n

Dominic founded the Order of Preachers \u2014 known as the Dominicans \u2014 in France in 1216, adapting the Rule of St. Augustine in obedience to the pope with an emphasis on study and community life in poverty. He died in Bologna, Italy, after several weeks of illness on Aug. 6, 1221.<\/p>\n

Pope Benedict XVI said <\/a>in February 2010 that St. Dominic \u201creminds us that in the heart of the Church, a missionary fire must always burn.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSt. Dominic was given the grace not only to have a fervent zeal and love for Jesus Christ, especially Christ crucified, but also the wisdom to preach the Gospel with force and conviction,\u201d Petri said.<\/p>\n

Sullivan noted: \u201cIt was also said that \u2018he always spoke either about God or to God,\u2019 and therefore his words were like fiery darts that always hit their targets.\u201d<\/p>\n

St. Catherine of Siena, a third order Dominican, is frequently quoted as saying: \u201cBe who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Petri explained that a more accurate translation of what St. Catherine wrote in a letter in her dying days is: \u201cIf you are what you ought to be, you will set fire to all Italy, and not only there.\u201d<\/p>\n

She wrote this to her follower Stefano Maconi because she was \u201cconcerned that he was tepid in his devotion and pleaded with him to go to Rome to light the fire of divine charity there amid the turmoil of schism and infidelity the city was experiencing,\u201d Petri said.<\/p>\n

St. Catherine of Siena spoke of cultivating the \u201cdivine fire\u201d as \u201ccultivating the charity of God in one\u2019s soul,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way we cultivate charity is by committing ourselves to be with Christ in prayer, in study, at work, in the home, and at every other moment in our day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost especially, however, such communion with Christ is nourished and strengthened by receiving the sacrament of charity \u2014 the holy Eucharist \u2014 in which the One who is charity itself comes into us and lights our souls aflame in love for him and for our neighbor.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story was first published on Aug. 8, 2019, and has been updated.<\/em><\/p>\n

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