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Hace 22 horas · Getty Images Empress Elizabeth ordered her favorite architect and Baroque specialist, Bartolomeo Rastrelli, to build a convent and an institute for noble maidens on this site. The Grand Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo and the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg were also built by him, so the tender blue Smolny Cathedral is very similar to these luxurious residences.
Hace 2 días · Stelluto described the images he had taken of Padre Pio as “mysterious,” since they always came out clearly despite dark lighting conditions. He recalled the challenge of taking photos in a dark convent, coupled with Padre Pio’s distaste for the flash of a camera, especially during Mass, and exclusive use of dim candles to light the altar.
Hace 22 horas · Getty Images The largest church in St. Petersburg and one of the largest Orthodox churches in the country. Before the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, it was a cathedral and a real spiritual center of the country.
Hace 4 días · Inaugurated on 7 May in the Charlemagne colonnade of Saint Peter's Square, the photo exhibit curated by Lia and Marianna Beltrami with the Dicastery for Communication features 24 works by artists from peripheries around the world with verses from St. Francis' Canticle of the Creatures accompanying them. By Maria Milvia Morciano.
Hace 3 días · The use of the name "Covent"—an Anglo-French term for a religious community, equivalent to "monastery" or "convent" —appears in a document in 1515, when the Abbey, which had been letting out parcels of land along the north side of the Strand for inns and market gardens, granted a lease of the walled garden, referring to it as "a garden called Covent Garden".
Hace 5 días · Michel M. Raguin, CC BY. The monumental Hagia Sophia in Constantinople – now Istanbul – was originally constructed as a cathedral. Built in 537 by the emperor Justinian, it was at first without...
19 de mar. de 2015 · 1. Brooklyn Visitation Monastery. The Brooklyn Visitation Monastery in Bay Ridge is home to the Sisters of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, an order founded in 1610. The Brooklyn ...
