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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. Peter (Augustine) Anderson, OP
Fr. Peter, a convert and member of the Eastern Dominican Province, was born in or near Elizabeth, N. J., January 8, 1812. Educated at St. Roses's near Springfield, Ky. Ordained there April 5, 1840 by Bishop Richard P. Miles, O.P., of Nashville, Tenn. In 1849, after splendid missionary work in Kentucky and Ohio, he was sent to help to organize the Church in California, which had lately become a part of the United States. He built the first church in Sacramento, Saint Rose Church, and died there of Asiatic cholera, November 27, 1850, having contracted it while dutifully ministering to the sick and dying in the epidemic. Later his remains were transferred to St. Dominic Cemetery in Benicia, California. He was held in high regard as a missionary, Dominican friar, and priest. Fr. Peter also is the first friar to die and be listed in the necrology of the Western Dominican Province. The image seen here is placed on the side of St. Dominic Church in Benicia, California where the parishioners continue to leave flowers for him to this day.
adapted from contributions by Fr. George Christian, OP
Image: this relief is located on the South exterior wall of St. Dominic Church in Benicia, CA. Click image to enlarge
Read more in our province history: Mission West
- Mission West - Fr. Fabian Stanley Parmisano, OP -- Chapter 1.4
- Mission West - Fr. Fabian Stanley Parmisano, OP -- Chapter 1.5
- Mission West - Fr. Fabian Stanley Parmisano, OP -- Chapter 1.1
Dominican Friars: Pioneers in the Archdiocese
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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January 8, 1812 |
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April 5, 1840 |
November 27, 1850 |
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