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On Wednesday, February 15, 2006, at 7:30 pm, Phyllis wrote:
> Today (16. February) is the feast day of
> Nicholas Paglia (blessed) (d. 1256) Nicholas was an early
> Dominican,
> won over by Dominic when he was a student at Bologna. He founded
> Dominican priories at Perugia and Trani, served as prior provincial
> for the Roman province, and was well known for his piety and
> apparently visions. N's cult was confirmed in 1828.
In N.'s native Puglia (he was born in Giovinazzo, where a
sixteenth-century Paglia's house is shown to tourists as his family
home) he is also credited with the foundation of the Dominican house at
Brindisi, whose Chiesa di Cristo (inscriptionally dated to 1232;
"restored" in 1950 and in 1972) is shown here:
http://www.brindisiweb.com/monumenti/foto/chiesacristo.jpg
http://www.brindisiweb.com/monumenti/foto/cristo5.jpg
Rose window:
http://www.brindisiweb.com/monumenti/foto/cristo2.jpg
Interior:
http://www.brindisiweb.com/monumenti/foto/cristo4.jpg
In Matera too (an Apulian city added to Basilicata in the seventeenth
century), N. is credited with the foundation of its Dominican house
(1230). An illustrated, Italian-language page on its church of San
Domenico is here:
http://www.sassiweb.it/chiesasandomenico/
N. was buried at the convent of San Domenico in Perugia. In 1959 his
relics were transferred to Giovinazzo and placed in that city's
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century church of San Domenico. They (or at
least some of them) are now in Giovinazzo's restored late
fourteenth-century Chiesa dello Spirito Santo:
http://rilievo.poliba.it/studenti/aa03/Castellano/TEMA.html
http://rilievo.poliba.it/studenti/aa03/Castellano/tema/ARTE.html
http://rilievo.poliba.it/studenti/aa03/Castellano/tema/NAVATAS.html
http://rilievo.poliba.it/studenti/aa03/Castellano/tema/STORIA.html
http://rilievo.poliba.it/studenti/aa03/Castellano/tema/VISITA.html
http://rilievo.poliba.it/studenti/aa03/Castellano/tema/ARCHITETTURA.html
Best,
John Dillon
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