Today we celebrate the Feast of All Saints of the Order of Preachers!
The universal Church celebrates her feast of all the pure of heart,
all those who see God – All Saints Day – on November 1. Likewise, many
of the great religious Orders celebrate a feast for their own saints.
The Dominican Order happens to be one of them (feast day – Nov. 7). The
Dominicans were the second Order (after the Benedictines) to receive
this privilege from the Holy See. In response to the request of
Cardinal Vincent Maria Orsini, OP, in 1674, Pope Clement X wrote:
Rightly, my Lord Cardinal, ought your Order to celebrate the solemnity of all its Saints on one appointed day; for, if we wished to assign to each of its holy sons his own special feast, we should have to form a new calendar, and they alone would suffice to fill it.
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