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Vocation Office
Western Dominican Province
5890 Birch Court
Oakland, CA 94618-1626
(510)-596-1821
Our Vocations require a great deal of support, from the first moment they begin their novitiate until the last moments of their retirement. Please do conside visiting our donation page and helping form and sustain the priests and brothers who will serve you in the future, serve you now and have served you in the past.
Saints and Blesseds
The Order of Friars Preachers,
The Dominican Order,
has a beautiful history of learning, service and holiness manifested in its saints and blesseds of every age since its foundation by St. Dominic de Guzman. Do enjoy the periodic postings of such stories as are available from various sources, especially our own archives.
Religious Retirement
Our elderly and infirm friars receive the best care we have available to us, as in any family. We rely heavily on the donations of others for our own existence and thus when one of our own becomes incapable of further ministry due to age or infirmity, those same donations help us support the sometimes necessary special care required by such members of our communities.
We prefer to care for our elderly and infirm in our own houses so that the life of a religious community can be a part of a friars life as long as possible. This is also the most economical in many ways. We strive to use donations wisely. But sometimes a care facility is essential. As we, as a Province, do not benefit from the national collection for retired religious, we ask that you assist us in caring for these friars who have prayed, taught, served and ministered for so many years amomg the people of the Western United States and beyond.
Please, in your kindness, consider assisting us in this work of brotherly love.
Many thanks in advance.
Catholicism
It's just the right thing
Fr. Ambrose Francis Wilson, OP
Fr. Ambrose was a "very retiring man and a profound student." He was born in Stockton, California and was one of the first local vocations. He entered the Dominicans at the age of 19. After preliminary studies in Benicia, California, he went to study in Louvain, Belgium receiving a degree to teach in a seminary. In our archives there is a passport he used for traveling freely in other countries. For a description of him there is no photo identification; instead, there is a written down physical description. At twenty-five years of age he was 5' 5 1/2'', with a high forehead, hazel eyes, small nose, small mouth, round chin, black hair, fair complexion, and full face.
He was Novice Master for many years and was elected Prior of St. Dominic's in San Francisco twice. He died in 1911 at the age of 54 of Brights disease. "Brights disease" was the term for one who had albumen protein in the kidneys. He served many years in the Order, may God so reward him.
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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January 1, 1857 |
1876 | May 23, 1885 |
October 18, 1911 |
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