Saints for August 8

Altman
Cyriacus
Dominic de Guzman
Eleutherius
Ellidius
Emilian
Famianus
Gedeon
Hormisdas
Joan of Aza
John Felton
Largus
Leobald of Fleury

Leonides
Marinus
Mary MacKillop
Mummolus
Myron the Wonder Worker
Peter Faber
Rathard of Diessen
Severus of Vienne
Sigrada
Smaragdus
Ternatius of Besançon
Ultan of Crayke
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Book of Deuteronomy 10:12-22.
"And now, Israel, what does the LORD, your God, ask of you but to fear the LORD, your God, and follow his ways exactly, to love and serve the LORD, your God, with all your heart and all your soul,
to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD which I enjoin on you today for your own good?
Think! The heavens, even the highest heavens, belong to the LORD, your God, as well as the earth and everything on it.
Yet in his love for your fathers the LORD was so … [More]

Our visit to St. Dominic's final resting place, Bologna, Italy:
http://tl.gloria.tv/?media=81395

August 8 SAINT DOMINIC Founder (1170-1221)

Saint Dominic de Guzman was born in Spain in 1170. As a student, he sold his books to feed the poor during a famine, and offered himself to ransom a slave. At the age of twenty-five, after taking the religious habit he became acting Superior of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine in Osma, and was soon offered an episcopal chair at Compostella. He answered as afterward he also answered many times: “God has not sent me to be a bishop, but to preach. … [More]