Dominic of Prussia
Carthusian monk
Who they were
Dominic, born in Poland in 1382, studied at Cracow but fell into bad habits and led a vagabond life until twenty-five, when Adolf of Essen, prior of the Carthusians of St Alban near Trier, brought him to conversion.
He became a Carthusian in 1409 and lived in severe penance and fervour, receiving many spiritual favours. He was novice master at Mainz and vicar at St Alban, where he died in 1461, leaving seventeen spiritual treatises.
The miracles
The Catholic Encyclopedia does not describe his cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A converted wanderer who became a Carthusian of great fervour.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), via New Advent - Dominic of Prussia
- Wikidata Q5290683 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Dominic of Prussia (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.