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Keeping the Light Shining Bright
Our Program of Formation involves eight years of academic and ministerial training. Throughout all that time our student friars in formation depend completely on the generosity of others and so keep our benefactors in particular at the center of our prayer life. Pleased do ad your own regular donation to our continuing need. We thank you now and will continue to thank you with our prayers.
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Our Dominican School
The Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA offers Masters and other degree and certificate programs rooted in the tradition of the Dominican order and our brother, St. Thomas Aquinas. Faithful to the teaching of Holy Mother, the Church, our school prepares not only young men studying for the priesthood, but also other men and women who will be the leaders of local communities of faith. Please do join in supporting this essential ministry of the Western Dominican Province.
Br. Anthony Patrick O'Keefe, OP
Brother Anthony was the Sacristan at St. Dominic's in San Francisco for nearly fifteen years, from 1902-1917. He was instrumental in the rehabilitation of St. Dominic's after the destruction of the second church by the earthquake of April 18, 1906. He was also one the best known religious in California. Rosaries which he made were used by thousands. Brother Anthony died on April 10, 1917 of typhoid pneumonia. His funeral Mass and eulogy were celebrated by Very Reverend L. A. McMahon, Prior Provincial of the Western Dominican Province. He was then laid to rest in the Dominican cemetery of Benicia, California. May God grant him rest.
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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July 27, 1849 |
December 8, 1892 |
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April 10, 1917 |
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