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Blessed Jordan of Saxony. Bl. Jordan was born towards the end of the twelfth century in Burgberg, Westphalia, Germany, and received the habit from Bl. Reginald in Paris on 12 February 1220. He was the …More
Blessed Jordan of Saxony.

Bl. Jordan was born towards the end of the twelfth century in Burgberg, Westphalia, Germany, and received the habit from Bl. Reginald in Paris on 12 February 1220. He was the first successor to St Dominic as Master of the Order. For fifteen years he provided for his brothers and sisters by word and example, by his letters, by his editing of the Constitutions, and by his frequent visitations. He contributed to the expansion of the Order with this virtuous life and marvellous eloquence. He was faithful in his piety towards the Virgin Mother of God in whose honour he decreed that the Salve Regina should be sung after Compline. Returning from a visitation to the Holy Land, he died in a shipwreck on 13 February 1237. His cult was observed thereafter by the brethren and the faithful, and was confirmed by Leo XII on 10 May 1826. Bl. Jordan is patron of Dominican vocations. Fresco from the cloister of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome.

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