Fra Angelico's best-known work is his series of frescoes at San Marco in Florence, the Dominican convent from which he ventured forth under the aegis of his patron and friend, Cosimo de' Medici.

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Situated in the countryside about an hour from Lisbon, it's a convent, and a Unesco World Heritage site at that, converted to a luxury hotel.

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The man who for three decades has been the Church's top theologian will be living in a former convent a garden lane from St.

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But Giuseppe Pallanti now says records from the time show that she died aged 63 in July 1542 and was buried in a now dilapidated convent in Florence.

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This revelation came to her after 10 hours of meditation at the convent of the Sister-Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration, not far from Manila.

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