Sep 21, 2025
Madrid's Monasterio de Las Descalzas Reales was once the monastery of Habsburg princesses and high-born daughters of European nobility: A nunnery for the rich and famous.
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Madrid's Monasterio de Las Descalzas Reales was once the monastery of Habsburg princesses and high-born daughters of European nobility: A nunnery for the rich and famous.
I WAS WALKING ALONG BERKELEY STREET AND BERKELEY ROAD
I visited Berkeley Road today, Sunday, as I had hoped to photograph the interior of the Carmelite Church but it was closed as was the park beside the church.
AND WAS CAUGHT OUT IN AN AMAZINGLY SUDDEN THUNDER STORM The change in the weather caught me totally by surprise but the rain storm lasted less than five minutes. I visited Berkeley Road today, Sunday, as I had hoped to photograph the interior of the Carmelite Church but it was closed as was the park beside the church. St. Joseph’s Carmelite Church on Berkeley Road is the Roman Catholic church…
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Quote of the day, 25 May: St. Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi
Quote of the day, 25 May: St Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi was half a century younger than St Teresa, yet Mary Magdalen was drawn to the same love of poverty. Read about her 1587 call to wear a patched habit and remove her shoes.
St. Gregory, commenting on these words of the Divine Master—“qui non renuntiat omnibus quae possidet, non potest meus esse discipulus”—said that he who undertakes to fight the devil must put off the vestments of earthly things: “Qui contra diabolum ad certamen proper at, vestimenta abiiciat, ne succumbat.” It was the 5th of July, 1587, when God, having taken [St. Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi, his]…
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St. John of the Cross St. John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz) was born John de Yepes, the youngest child of a poor family from Toledo, Spain in 1542.
St. Peter of Alcántara and St. Teresa meet to plan the first Discalced Carmelite monastery: "He helped me a great deal"
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Michael itskovich
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The Church of the Order of Discalced Carmelites / Tudor Radulescu
The Church of the Order of Discalced Carmelites / Tudor Radulescu
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Architects: Tudor Radulescu
Location: Snagov 077165, Romania
Photographs: Viorel Plesca
Project Manager And Religious Coordinator: Architect Andrej Stefancic (Mizar Proiect, Bucharest)
Art Works, Stained Glasses, Mosaic: Marko Ivan Rupnik (Centro Aletti, Rome)
Traditional Wooden Design: Architect Ioan…
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