DOMINIC OF SILOS, Saint. - Born at Cañas, province of Logroño (Spain), around the year 1000. Having become a Benedictine, he restored the priory of his native town, and brought distinction to the monastery of St. Millán de la Cogolla (Cuculla) and that of St. Sebastian of Silos, near Burgos, where he died in 1073. From 1041 until his death he governed this monastery, making it an important center of religious life.

Among those who received benefits from the Saint is numbered the blessed Aza, future mother of the founder of the Order of Preachers, who later wished her son to bear his name.

The monastery of St. Sebastian and the town that grew up beside it soon took the name of St. Dominic of Silos. The translation of his body took place in 1076; he appeared for the first time in the Roman Martyrology only in 1748.

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BIBL.: L. Tosti, Vita di s. D., abate dell'ordine di s. Benedetto, Naples 1855; Anal. Bollandiana, 12 (1893), p. 325; Martyr. Romanum, p. 593. Giuseppe Pou y Marti

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Dominic of Silos, Saint

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