Dominican Order Celebrates 800 years - List of Famous Dominicans and Brief History to SHARE

The Spanish priest Dominic de Guzmán started  the Order of Preachers in France. On November 7, in the mother church of St. Sabina in Rome, the Dominican Order will initiate a jubilee year commemorating the bull promulgated by Pope Honorius III in 1216 and 1217, that confirmed the founding of the Dominicans. Fr. Bruno Cadorè is the Master General of the Order and 86th successor of their founder. The Dominican Order now has 3,000 nuns in 209 monasteries; 6,000 brothers in 602 friaries; more than 40,000 apostolic sisters in more than 119 congregations and 150,000 lay-members. There are 130 saints, including many doctors of the Church; 4 popes; 75 cardinals; 150 archbishops and hundreds of bishops. Members of the order have the letters O.P., standing for Ordinis Praedicatorum, meaning of the Order of Preachers, after their names. Pope Pius XI stated that: The Rosary of Mary is the principle and foundation on which the very Order of Saint Dominic rests for making perfect the life of its members and obtaining the salvation of others.Histories of the Holy Rosary show Saint Dominic himself receiving the cord from the Blessed Virgin Mary. Our Lady of the Rosary is the title from the apparition to Saint Dominic in 1208 in the church of Prouille in which the Virgin Mary gave the Rosary to him. Edited from Wikipedia
FAMOUS Dominicans
List of proclaimed saints from the Dominicans:
 Death of Peter of Verona (1206–1252) by Girolamo Savoldo, ca. 1530–35
Louis Bertrand (1526–1581), portrait by Francisco de Zurbarán, 1640
Francisco Coll Guitart (1812–1875)
St. Dominic (d. 1221)
St. Peter Martyr (d. 1252)
St. Zedislava Berkiana (d. 1252)
St. Hyacinth (d. 1257)
St. Margaret of Hungary (d. 1271)
St. Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)
St. Raymond of Peñafort (d. 1275)
St. Albert the Great (d. 1280)
St. Agnes of Montepulciano (d. 1317)
St. Catherine of Siena (d. 1380)
St. Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419)
St. Antoninus (d. 1459)
Pope St. Pius V (d. 1572)
St. Louis Bertrand (d. 1581)
St. Catherine de Ricci (d. 1590)
St. John of Cologne (d. 1600)
St. Rose of Lima (d. 1617)
St. Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia (d. 1633)
St. Lorenzo Ruiz (d. 1637)
St. Martin de Porres (d. 1639)
St. John Macias (d. 1645)
Thomasian Martyrs (Asia and Spain, 17th and 18th centuries)
St. Louis de Montfort (d. 1716)
St. Francisco Coll Guitart (d. 1875)
St. Thomas Khoung (d. 1600+)
Numerous Dominicans were included in the canonization of the 117 martyrs of Vietnam and a group of martyrs in Nagasaki, including St. Lorenzo Ruiz.
Beatified Dominicans:
Blessed Jordan of Saxony
Blessed Mannes de Guzman, Brother of St. Dominic de Guzman
Blessed Alanus dela Rupe
Blessed Peter González
Blessed Margaret of Castello
Blessed Sadok and 48 Dominican martyrs from Sandomierz
Blessed Ceslaus,
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
Blessed Henry Suso
Blessed Fra Angelico
Pope Blessed Innocent V
Pope Blessed Benedict XI
Blessed Robert Nutter, English Reformation martyr
Blessed Reginald of Orleans
Blessed Jan Franciszek Czartoryski
Blessed Gonçalo de Amarante, priest and hermit
Blessed Joan of Aza, mother of St. Dominic de Guzmán
Blessed Giuseppe Girotti
Blessed Bartolo Longo
Blessed Imelda Lambertini
Blessed Catherine of Racconigi
Blessed Lucy Brocadelli
Blessed Jordan of Pisa
Blessed Adrian Fortescue (martyr) Blessed Columba of Rieti Blessed Stephana de Quinzanis
Blessed Osanna of Mantua
Blessed Osanna of Cattaro
Blessed Anthony Neyrot
Blessed Margaret of Castello
Blessed John of Vercelli
Blessed Margaret of Savoy
Four Dominican friars have served as Bishop of Rome:
Pope Innocent V
Pope Benedict XI
Pope St. Pius V
Pope Benedict XIII
As of 2014, there are three Dominicans in the College of Cardinals:
Georges Marie Martin Cardinal Cottier
Christoph Cardinal Schönborn Austrian Archbishop of Vienna
Dominik Duka, Czech Archbishop of Prague
Other notable Dominicans include:
Gabriel Barletta
Matteo Bandello
Frei Betto, (1944) Brazilian friar, theologian, political activist and former government adviser
Meister Eckhart (c.1260-c.1328) German mystic and preacher
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600),
Anne Buttimer, University College Dublin
Oliviero Carafa
Brian Davies (Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University; former Regent of Blackfriars, Oxford)
Francisco de Vitoria (one of the founders of International Law)
Bartolomé de las Casas (1484-1566) Spanish bishop in the West, Protector of the Indians
Nicholas Eymerich
Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895-1990) French theologian of the Nouvelle Théologie
Yves Congar (1904-1995) French theologian of the Nouvelle Théologie, later cardinal
Bernard Gui (1261-1331) French bishop and inquisitor of the Cathars
Jean Jérôme Hamer (1916-1996) Belgian theologian and Curia official, cardinal
Henrik Kalteisen, the 24th Archbishop of Nidaros
Heinrich Kramer (1430-1505) German author of the Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches),
Dominique Pire (George) (1910-1969) Nobel Peace Prize
Vincent McNabb (1868-1943) Anglo-Irish scholar, apologist and ecumenist
Timothy Radcliffe (1945) 85th Master of the Order of Preachers
Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) Italian pre-reformation theologian, dictatorial ruler of Florentine Republic, burned by the Inquisition Edward Schillebeeckx (1914-1998) Belgian theologian
Johann Tetzel
Tomás de Torquemada (1420-1498) Spanish theologian, Grand-Inquisitor,
Gustavo Gutierrez (1928) Peruvian liberation theologian
Herbert McCabe (1926-2001) English theologian and scholar
Jeanine Deckers, "The Singing Nun" (1933-1985) shortly famous Belgian nun and chanson singer;