St. Dominic of Silos was born in 1000, in Navarre, Spain. He was a peasant, and as a young man, he worked as a shepherd until he entered the Benedictine monastery at Navarre. When the king of Navarre ...

He spent five years as the confessor at a monastery in Avila that St. Teresa led. In December of 1577, John was imprisoned in a tiny cell for nine months, during a dispute over his assignment in the ...