Chapelle Antoniazzo Romano La Chapelle de l’Annunziata a subi plusieurs modifications au cours des siècles, mais la plus importante et qui est encore visible aujourd’hui, fut celle apportée par Carlo Maderno, architecte italo-suisse du XVI-XVII° siècle. Parmi les principales œuvres qui se trouvent à l’intérieur, il y a le monument funèbre du Pape Urbain VII…
2. L’Architecture de la Basilique
L’Architecture de la Basilique L’architecture, de style gothique est unique à Rome, elle date de 1280 et on la doit à deux frères dominicains, le fr. Sixte et le fr. Ristoro. Ce sont eux qui ont aussi projeté Sainte Marie Nouvelle de Florence. Les travaux durèrent très longtemps. En 1453, sur ordre du Conte Francesco…
St Catherine of Siena
Inquisition
Inquisition From the beginning, the Church has sought to expose the heresies of its members, that is to say, the doctrinal errors that it discerns in the words of the faithful. The culprits were often punished by spiritual sanctions. From the twelfth century, in order to put a stop to the arbitrary violence of princes…
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas Aquinas Born in the south of Italy around 1225, Thomas joined the Dominicans twenty years later, despite the opposition of his parents. Since childhood a question occupied him: who is God? As a student in Paris, and then in Cologne, he followed the Dominican Albert the Great’s classes, read Aristotle and Saint Augustine,…
Saint Dominic
Saint Dominic Dominic was born in Castile (Spain), at Caleruega, around 1170. His first name means « one who belongs to the Lord ». His family was fervent. He was a student in Palencia in 1196 when he sold his books to feed the starving. After this episode, he became a canon in the cathedral…
The Sacrament of Baptism
The Sacrament of Baptism The gateway into the Christian life, baptism is a bath of water with an accompanying word. The water signifies that baptism is a new birth ; the word indicates that this new life is given and retained by the Trinity of the Father, the Son and the Spirit. This gesture of…
Life of the nuns
Life of the nuns The nuns of the Order of Preachers originated from a group of Cathar women, leading a common life of prayer and penance at Fanjeaux (France), at the beginning of the thirteenth century. Converted by the preaching of Saint Dominic and returned to the Catholic Church, these women wished to preserve their…
Liturgy of the Hours
Liturgy of the Hours After the reforms of Vatican II this name was given to the Divine Office or the « work of God » (Opus Dei), prayer that accompanies the passage of time throughout the day and night. This prayer is firstly the work of Christ: «taking human nature (he) introduced in our earthly…
O Lumen
O Lumen « Ô Light »: the first words in Latin of an antiphon addressed to Saint Dominic, he who in the night of sinners, is like a light that illuminates the good path for getting to true life, Jesus. In struggling against the errors in doctrine and against the lack of generosity in practice,…