Dominic of Silos

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Cloister ( claustro ) of the Santo Domingo de Silos monastery

Dominikus von Silos Ordo Sancti Benedicti, OSB - Spanish Domingo de Silos , originally Domingo Manso - (* around 1000 in Cañas near Logroño ; † December 20, 1073 in Silos ) is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church popular in Spain .

biography

According to tradition, Dominic came from a wealthy family. In his youth he looked after his parents' cattle. He was ordained a priest at the age of 26; around 1030 he entered the Benedictine order . He was elected prior in the Abbey of San Millán de la Cogolla in 1038 . A few years later he got into a dispute with King García I of Navarre over possessions of the monastery and had to flee to the neighboring kingdom of Castile . There, King Ferdinand I gave him the management of the Abbey of San Sebastián de Silos, and from 1041 Dominikus led the abbey as abbot to a scientific and cultural bloom, of which the former scriptorium and the library still bear witness to this day. He did not live to see the end of work on the cloister ( claustro ) that he had probably commissioned - he died in 1073.

Cenotaph of the saint in the cloister of the monastery - in the background a relief and the chains of freed or ransomed Christian prisoners

Adoration

There is no record of the canonization of Domingo de Silos. The monastery of Silos with its tomb was only a few kilometers from the Spanish Way of St. James ( Camino de Santiago ); it bore his name from around 1110 and became an important pilgrimage site in the Middle Ages. Dominic of Silos was venerated as the patron saint of shepherds and prisoners. His feast day is December 20th.

The old Spanish poet monk Gonzalo de Berceo dedicated a vita in Castilian verse to him in the 13th century .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Placidus Heider: Domingo de Silos . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 3 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, Sp. 323 .
personal data
SURNAME Dominic of Silos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Benedictine, saint of the Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH around 1000
PLACE OF BIRTH Cañas near Logroño
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1073
Place of death Santo Domingo de Silos