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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. Augustine Louis Naselli, OP
Louis Naselli was born in New York City, New York, on January 19, 1891. He received his preliminary education in the public schools of San Francisco, California, and attended Aquinas College in Columbus, Ohio. He entered the Order on September 14, 1916, in Somerset, Ohio, as a member of the Province of the Holy Name, making his first profession there on September 16, 1917. Solemn profession was made at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., on September 16, 1921. He continued his studies in philosophy in Springfield, Kentucky, and theology in Washington, D.C. He was ordained a priest on June 14, 1923.
Fr. Augustine began his priestly activities as an assistant pastor in San Francisco and Portland. He was made pastor of St. Peter Martyr's, Pittsburg, and then Procurator of the Province. After this term of Procurator he became pastor in Vallejo and then prior at the novitiate in Ross. Later he served as pastor in Berkeley, and again in Pittsburg. He was elected prior in San Francisco in 1954, and after this term remained on there until his death in 1969.
Fr. Augustine died in London Convalescent Home, Novato, California, on March 9, 1969. The Board of Supervisors for San Francisco City and County adjourned its regular meeting of March 10, 1969, out of respect to his memory. He is buried at St. Dominic's Cemetery, Benicia.
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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January 19, 1891 |
September 16, 1917 |
June 14, 1923 |
March 9, 1969 |
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