Dominic's Name Day

8th August

Dominic, the name has a description or meaning which is from the Latin, 'of the Lord'

Dominic has a Name day of 8th August, please check our history page to find out how this was derived

This description represents the Male usage of the name.

This name is a truly ancient name from which numerous variations have been derived as shown below (the M or F in brackets are Male or Female orientated names)

St Dominic is a patron saint of the following:

Symbols are often associated with Saints, it often helped in the middle ages when people were unable to read thus Dominic has the following symbols associated

Historically Famous Dominics

Although there were several early martyrs called Dominica, it was the twelfth-century St Dominic who inspired many more Dominics to become saints and martyrs. Dominic was a Spaniard whose religious energy sprang from his fights against heresy. Before he was born, his mother had a vision in which she saw her son as a dog holding a flaming torch; the nickname of the Dominican Order came to be 'the hounds of God'. Later, when he was christened, she saw a star shining on him. Dominic was to be, with Francis, the most influential saint of his era. Dominic's first foundation was a convent for French nuns who had renounced the Albigensian heresy. For the rest of his life, he established and directed the Order of Preachers, the great counterpart to Francis' order. Between the two men, Western Christianity was reformed and rejuvenated by dusty friars traveling in poverty and preaching to ordinary people all over Europe. The popular image of Dominic was of a man as ruthless as the terrible Inquisitions of the Cathars and Albigensians, which he supported, but apparently he was a hugely compassionate and intellectual man. He remained true to his ideal of personal poverty, dying in a borrowed habit and a borrowed bed because he possessed none of his own