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  2. Dominican Order in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Dominican Order (Order of Preachers) was first established in the United States by Edward Fenwick in the early 19th century. The first Dominican institution in the United States was the Province of Saint Joseph, which was established in 1805. [ 1] Additionally, there have been numerous institutes of Dominican Sisters and Nuns.

  3. Dominican Order - Wikipedia

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    The Order of Preachers (Latin: Ordo Prædicatorum, abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian priest named Dominic de Guzmán. It was approved by Pope Honorius III via the papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216.

  4. List of Dominican saints and beatified - Wikipedia

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    A. Relics of Dominican saints. Agnes of Montepulciano (1268-1317), prioress in medieval Tuscany. Albertus Magnus (before 1200–1280), German friar and bishop, Doctor of the Church. John Alcober (1694-1748), Spanish priest, one of the Martyr Saints of China. Pedro Almato [es] (1830-1861), Spanish priest, one of the Vietnamese Martyrs.

  5. List of sites of the Dominican Order - Wikipedia

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    Dominican Church [de] in Münster (1708-1811) Kloster Wörishofen [de] in Bad Wörishofen (1718-1802 and since 1842) Church of the Saviour [de] in Heidelberg (1720-1802) Dominikanerinnenkloster Fremdingen [de] in Fremdingen (1737-1802 and since 1828) Kloster Landsberg am Lech [de] in Landsberg am Lech (since 1845)

  6. Edward Fenwick - Wikipedia

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    Province of Maryland, British America. Died. September 26, 1832. (1832-09-26) (aged 64) Wooster, Ohio, United States. Edward Dominic Fenwick, O.P. (August 19, 1768 – September 26, 1832) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church, a Dominican friar and the first Bishop of Cincinnati .

  7. History of YouTube - Wikipedia

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    YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees— Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim —in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.

  8. Joseph Sadoc Alemany - Wikipedia

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    The Dominican superiors sent Alemany to the United States in 1841. [4] The first years of his missionary activity were spent in Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee, and in 1847, he was made provincial of the order of Dominicans in the state of Ohio. [4] He eventually become a naturalized United States citizen.

  9. Saint Dominic - Wikipedia

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    Saint Dominic. Saint Dominic, OP (Spanish: Santo Domingo; 8 August 1170 – 6 August 1221), also known as Dominic de Guzmán (Spanish: [ɡuθˈman]), was a Castilian Catholic priest and the founder of the Dominican Order. He is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientists, and he and his order are traditionally credited with spreading ...