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Rieti: "St. Agnes" (fond. 1259) - S. Agnes Virgin and Martyr, via S. Agnes, 8-02100 RIETI, Tel 074.620.52.60 Two years after the canonization of St. Dominic made by Gregory IX at Rieti its July 3, 1234, construction began on the new monastery (1236), but because of continuous wars it went several times and only in 1259 was completed. Founder of the monastery was the noble Isabella de Sabellus, of Sabine origin. The first seventeen cloistered nuns who began life in the new monastery all came from the Dominican monastery of St. Sisto in Rome. The original house was exposed to frequent flooding for which the cloistered, in 1334, passed a new monastery. On the night of August 20, 1494 Saracens attacked the monastery, the nuns took refuge in the belfry and rang the tocsin bells (still existing in the convent), but no one noticed in time to help. The Saracens set fire to the monastery and went to the sword 29 nuns. It survived only eight religious which settled in the house of B. Dove, who transformed and enlarged with new buildings. In a crystal case nuns preserve precious relics of B. Dove.

- S. Anna, Salita S. Anna - 84014 Nocera Inferiore (Salerno); you!. 081.517.67.

Nocera Inferiore (SA): "S. Anna (fond.1282)

It was 1282 - one of the most turbulent periods in the kingdom of Naples - where the noble Peter, bishop of Capaccio and native Nocera, wanted the foundation of a monastery

women in his possessions. The first cloistered

according to the will of the founder, the nuns were Lateran, known as Canonichesse 'and the first abbess came from the monastery of St. Paul Donato in Poggio Sabina. But we are in the golden age of the Dominican Order, the century when many religious communities of women sought and was granted to the white crowd Gusman. November 7, 1288 So the cloistered nuns of 'S. Anna 'legal steps in the Order of St. Dominic. Although there have been periods of darkness, as in any human institution, the austere Dominican life was living here in all its splendor, especially in the '500. In fact, in this century we have two foundations to start from S. Anna 'in 1515, a new Dominican cloister in Sarno, in 1547, Sister Giovanna Villani with some other sister was called by Sister Maria Carafa, sister of Pope Paul IV, who founded the monastery of Wisdom in Naples, to form the community in the news Dominican primitive observances.

ROME: "SS. Annunziata (fond.1562) Dominican Monastery of SS. Annunziata Piazza S. Martino ai Monti, 142 - 00184 Rome Tel / Fax 06/4880385 FOUNDATION The Monastery of SS. Annunziata, commonly called the Nunziatina, is one of those institutions which sprang up and flourished after the middle of the century. XVI. It must be the zeal of St. Ignatius to the initiative of missionary activity for the conversion of Jews and especially for their protection! . Entered the Church, neophytes, hated by Judaism, had they been left to themselves, would have been exposed the most serious dangers: and so, in their shelter opened S. Ignatius received a hospice that catechumens and neophytes. With the passing of time become too small for the room and take better separate the two sexes, as Pope Paul IV had rented a house at St. John Mercatello to house baptized and neophytes under the direction of a Roman widow dedicates tasi for life for this work. In the early years dwelt in that house up to forty girls and stayed there until the time when we offered them an opportunity to marry, or take the religious habit in some institution. However, if serious difficulties were opposed to finding out who was willing to marry young people of Jewish origin, they encountered much greater obstacles for the novice monks, being contrary to the religious community to admit the girls were born and reared in 'Judaism. That thought was the erection of a monastery, which is upheld by ensuring that the petitioners neophytes, and held in its enclosure, girls and women for religious education that prepares them to receive the baptism.

s) Please consult 1'opera in German P. Charles Hoffmann:

A contribution to the history of the Catholic mission to the Jews and Mohammedans.

- ROME: 'S. Rosary (fond. 1221) - S. Maria del Rosario, Via Alberto Cadlolo, 51 - 00136 Rome; you!. 06.354.209.40; It was the spring of 1221: San Domenico welcomed the new monastery of St. Sisto Porta Capena the few Sisters of St. Mary Tempulo, along with other nuns from several monasteries Romans, thus forming a single religious community. He followed the nuns of St. Mary Tempulo a precious treasure: the image of acheropita "Madonna of S. Luke. " To shape a community so diverse religious nuns of St. Dominic called Prouille, he founded the first monastery in France. At the new community the holy founder gave the Rule of St. Augustine added that the rules, the 'primitive Constitutions of St. Yes I am ', which have as their foundation the ancient rule of Prouille. Due to the unhealthy air the community, in 1575, moved to a new monastery in via Magnanapoli. In ''800, to the sad political fluctuations of the century, the nuns lived in uncertain times and painful. When was the last in 1931 exodus of the community at Monte Mario, the monastery took the title of "S. Rosario. " Among the most cherished relics of the nuns will keep the "grateful" at which St. Dominic was talking to the "little sisters".

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  PALERMO: 'S. Catherine V. and M. ' (fond. 1310) S. Catherine Virgin and Martyr, Descent of Judges, 33 - 90133 Palermo, Tel. 091.616.24.88 The first document that validates the presence of female Dominican monastery in Palermo in 1290: it seems that this community be welcomed at poor women repent, as in a conservatory. In a scroll, which still exists in the archives of the monastery, on September 13, 1310, reads as Welcome Mastrangelo, childless wife of Count Palatine Santafior, available for testing all of its existing assets in Palermo, Sciacca, Trapani Salemi. .. was to be earmarked the foundation of a Dominican monastery. This was implemented in its own building, "formwork" in 1318 and have lived the cloistered life was full and complete according to the ideal of San Domenico, Palermo was the cloister so attractive to so many sweet souls. The monastery of St. Catherine, we see today, dates, whole, in his great work of architecture, 1700. Today, a college senior joins the monastery which, according to the charism of our Order, the nuns are passed on to their young visitors' contemplative light. "

-S. Maria delle Grazie, Via B. Donnorso, l - 80067 Sorrento (Naples), tel. 081.878.14.58

- SORRENTO (NA): 'S. Maria delle Grazie " (fond. 1566) There were already five Dominican monasteries in Sorrento for young noblemen. The Lady Donnorso Berardino, kidnapped by the Saracens in their foray into the Sorrento peninsula, to the authoritative intervention of the bishop Sorrento, Mgr. Giulia Pavesi, managed to secure the release. Grateful to the Lord, designed to establish a new monastery, working hard all his property, but wanted it to be especially for the Daughters of the people of Sorrento and its plan. " The Bishop. Pavesio, a Dominican, he encouraged the foundation and wanted it to be Dominican. So the building was structured Donnorso cloister with other adjacent buildings. The deeds of the foundation were written on December 29, 1566, while St. Pius V established the bubble. In the beautiful church of the monastery, from the title, too, S. Maria delle Grazie, is venerated effigy of 'Ecce Homo' particularly also dear to the people of Sorrento. From the leg of this statue in 1720 and in 1858, oozing drops of blood are still visible signs of such a prodigy.

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- LETTERS (NA): 'S. Rosary (1629 fond. SS. Rosario, Piazza Roma, 5-80050 LETTERS (NAPLES), tel. 081.802.10.53 The venerable John Fusco Dominican convent of S. Maria della Sanità in Naples, a native of Arts , the figure most splendid of our Order, he devoted himself, in imitation of St. Dominic, particularly the religious and many of them drove the streets of sublime holiness. Together with the priest and the noble Paul Fusco Andrea Fattorossi, also native literature, planned the foundation of a monastery. Bishop Andrea Caputo, bishop at the time of Humanities, was enthusiastic, in fact he wanted the new Dominican cloister near the cathedral arose because the new cloistered daughters, "the heart" of his flock, were the lifeblood of its business pastoral. Fusco's family donated his villa near the cathedral and with appropriate renovations and expansions was transformed into a monastery. The Bull of erection of Pope Urban VIII is September 20, 1629, but the execution took place April 24, 1630. Sister Constance Lopez, as the prioress, and Sister Barbara Maresca, as mistress of novices, were the two nuns from the monastery "St. Maria delle Grazie "to Sorrento to form the first candidates to the spirit of the Order.

- MARINO ( Roma): 'S. Rosary (fond. 1675) - SS. Rosario, Piazza Garibaldi, 56-00047 LAZIALE MARINO (ROMA) tel. 06.938.70.59 The noble sister Isabella Colonna, a Dominican nun in the monastery of the Holy Roman Empire. Dominic and Sixtus since 1649, heard with increasing insistence the need for a strict observance of monastic life .. Seeing difficult to implement his own wishes in the convent, she thought more appropriate a new foundation. In 1675 he turned to the Master General, Thomas de Rocabertí to begin the necessary paperwork for the canonical establishment of a new monastery. The father greeted with enthusiasm the project of Sister Isabella and obtained about the foundation by Pope Clement X on May 8, 1675. Meanwhile, the brother of Sister Isabella, Onofrio Colonna, bought the property in Marino and was converted into a monastic cloister. The project was completed September 22, 1676. In this day Sister Isabella Colonna, who joined two other chosen souls, Sister and Sister M. Giulia Lancellotti Agata Serafini, and fifteen candidates, made a solemn entrance into the new Dominican monastery. It should be remembered that in 1896 the Master General Andrew Fruhwirth, for the formation of the first Daughters of the SS. Rosary of Pompeii, "chose, a nun of the monastery, Sister M. Rosaria Pazzaglia.

- S. Mary Foot, Piazza Benedetto XIII, 20 Gravina di Puglia (Bari), tel. 080.325.13.07 Gravina (BA): 'S. Mary Foot " (fond. 1677) Since 1450 there Gravina in the Brotherhood of 'S. Maria Foot, "which in 1588 began the erection of an" academy "for young people. Donna Giovanna Frangipane, widow of Ferdinand III Orsini, during the regency of the Duchy of Gravina, a lot has worked to this academy. Finally, free by family commitments and government, wanted to devote himself completely to God He placed the young guests' S. Mary Foot "elsewhere, and rebuilt the academy said in monastic setting. Meanwhile, he petitioned Pope Clement X in the right to erect a new monastery under the Rule and the Constitutions of the Dominican Order, the bull of foundation on October 29, 1677. The noble founder, who took the religious name of Sister M. Baptist Holy Spirit, joined nine other young people. For the formation of the first in the ideal of contemplative Gravina San Domenico were called, from the monastery of St. Catherine di Napoli, Palmerini Sister Barbara, Sister Mary of Jesus and a conversation. The eldest son of founder, who had entered youth in our Order, it became the name of Pope Benedict XIII and was naturally thoughtful attention to the monastery founded by her mother.

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