DOMINIC OF PRUSSIA (of Trier). - Carthusian writer, b. in Prussia around the year 1382, d. at Trier on 21 Dec. 1460. Having entered the Carthusian monastery of Trier in 1410, he spent his whole life there, except for an interval of a few years for the founding of the Carthusian monastery of Rettel (diocese of Metz) in 1415. He enjoyed a reputation as a mystic on account of the autobiographical description of his visions and revelations in the Liber experientiarum, unpublished. He practiced a particular devotion to the childhood of Our Lord and propagated the Holy Rosary, already existing in the Church, by adding to each Ave a brief sentence recalling the mystery to be meditated upon, e.g.: "...fructus ventris tui Iesus, qui natus est pro nobis". He lived his last 17 years amid continuous physical sufferings.

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BIBL.: P. Dorlandus, Chronicon Cartus, Cologne 1608, p. 384 ff.; L. Le Vasseur, Ephmerides Ord. Cartus, IV, Montreux 1880 ff., p. 246 ff.; A. Mortier, Histoire des Maîtres Générone O. P., I, Paris 1903, pp. 15-16; VII, ibid. 1918, p. 189; L. Gougoud, in La vie et les arts liturgiques, Oct. 1922 and July 1924.

Sebastiano Maccabe

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Dominic of Prussia (of Trier)

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