Alvaro Moreno and Patricia Trigo «Pati.te» join forces to celebrate 100 years of DOMUND with a very special t-shirt

A «missionary» T-shirt. This is how they wanted to celebrate and make celebrate the first centenary of the DOMUND, Álvaro Moreno and the illustrator Patricia Trigo.

The T-shirt, designed by Patite, features the Leo XIV praying smiling over a world that is held in the hands of the Virgin Mary.

An inscription reads “Mary, Queen of the Missions, we are in your hands”.

The design of the garment is by Alvaro Moreno and includes this illustration on the back, with the sign of the keys of St. Peter, the flags of Spain and the Vatican and the title “Domund 100”.

The T-shirt, on sale at Álvaro Moreno stores, costs 12.95 euros and the full amount - excluding 21% tax - will be donated to the Pontifical Missionary Works (PMO) to support the missionary work of the DOMUND.

A few days before the arrival of Leo XIV to Spain, OMP encourages to receive the Pope, who has been a missionary in Peru and is responsible for these works that support the missions, with this solidarity t-shirt.

Selfless collaboration

This original and modern way of joining the centenary of the work of the DOMUND, carried out by the Pontifical Mission Societies, wants to celebrate these «one hundred years in which Christians around the world dedicate a day to pray, all together, and to raise awareness that... the Church is missionary! José María Calderón, OMP's director in Spain. 

Both Álvaro Moreno and the designer have made this collaboration in a completely disinterested manner: Patricia has donated the illustration, and Alvaro Moreno has assumed the design, production, manufacturing and logistics costs.

100 years of Domund

The Domund (World Mission Sunday) was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1926. With this initiative, the pontiff wanted the mission to be not only a matter of the missionaries, but that the whole Church would join one Sunday a year (the penultimate Sunday of October) in prayer and economic cooperation with them.

The Pope entrusted the PMS to channel the generosity of all the faithful to help in his name in an equitable way each year to the dioceses that had been created by the missionaries, known as Mission Territories.

Since then, the DOMUND has been lived with intensity in the Spanish society, being one of the countries that, annually, contributes more money to this work. In addition, Spain currently has about 9,000 missionaries around the world. The centenary of the DOMUND pays tribute to their dedication and silent service.