Lamentation by Sister Plautilla Nelli, 1524-1588 #Dominican Prioress of the convent of St. Catherine of Siena #Florence
(Museo di San Marco, Florence)
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13 Apr 1534: John Hilsey #Dominican & George Browne #Augustinian (& future Archbishop of #Dublin) appointed to visit all friaries in #England #otd (BM) #itsclosingtime
24 Mar 1642: A large crowd gather at St Stephen's Green #Dublin [or possibly Hoggen Green] #otd to watch expected apostasy of the #Dominican Peter Higgins. But he didn't. After his execution there was a tussle for the corpse, won by #English soldiers who mutilated it (BM)
7 Mar 1274: d. St. Thomas Aquinas #Dominican Doctor Angelicus #otd theologian, systematiser #scholastic
7 Mar 1522: Hugh Inge #Dominican Bishop of #Meath and client of Cardinal Wolsey is appointed Lord Chancellor of #Ireland #otd.
In Feb 1523 he would become Archbishop of #Dublin. A papal legate friend in court is good for a career.
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Mechanic ‘Anora’ is having a good night,” host Conan O'Brien told the audience part-way through the evening. “I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.” Yowch.
#conanobrien
#Oscar #ZoeSaldaña #AcademyAward #Netflix #EmiliaPérez #Dominican #russia #oligarchs #oligarchy #trump #musk #putin
Amazing #Oscar Acceptance Speech by Zoe Saldaña
"#ZoeSaldaña won the #AcademyAward for best supporting actress on Sunday night for her role in the #Netflix film #EmiliaPérez. Saldaña plays Rita Mora Castro, a lawyer who helps the title character, a trans cartel boss, undergo gender-affirming surgery and start a new life as a woman.
This is Saldaña's first-ever Oscar win and her first Oscar nomination. She is also the first #Dominican American to win an Academy Award”
1 Mar 1634: Nicholas Lynch #Dominican of #Galway becomes Prior of San Sisto Vecchio, Via Appia #Rome #otd
#US #ICE agents are arresting and deporting #Dominican citizens from #PuertoRico as part of #Trump's ordered deportation wave. Due to the island's colonial status, #PuertoRicans have no sovereignty over immigration policy in their homeland.
26 Jan: feast of St Margaret of #Hungary #otd a royal #nuntastic #Dominican (AH) She died 18 Jan 1271.
23 Jan 1656: John Nolan #Dominican from #Kilkenny released from the Inquisition prison in #Rome #otd after interrogation about his views on grace & predestination - of the Jansenistic kind (BM)
18 Jan 1271: d. St Margaret of #Hungary #otd a royal #nuntastic #Dominican (AH)
18 Jan 1517: George D'Athequa, Catherine of Aragon's #Dominican confessor consecrated bishop of Llandaff #otd (Lambeth Palace) by the bishop of #Hereford in St Paul's #London
7 Jan 1536: At 10am #otd in Kimbolton Castle, George D'Athequa, Catherine of Aragon's #Dominican confessor in #Spanish & bishop of Llandaff gives her extreme unction.
She died at 2pm. (Lambeth Palace)
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A Haitian woman peeks through an opening of a gate of a migration clearance centre where her husband had been taken, after the Dominican Republic said it would deport up to 10,000 migrants per week who were in the country illegally, in Santo Domingo, #Dominican Republic, October 9. REUTERS/Erika Santelices
9 Dec 1579: b. St Martin de Porres #Dominican in #Lima #Peru The son of slave, feeder of poor.
He was a very popular saint in #Dublin when I was growing up.
15 Oct 1653: Tadhg Ó Muirchertaigh #Dominican Prior of #Tralee hanged at #Killarney #otd (BM) #Kerry
