Mater Admirabilis Story

This long story began under louis xi who brought saint François De Paule, hermit of Calabria, to plessis lès tours. To thank him, Charles viii bought this land and started building the convent and then the church of Trinidad. The small ones were therefore the first occupants. . The passage of Charles v destroyed everything in 1527. A second trauma was inflicted between 1798 and 1800: the French, the Romans, the Neapolitan succeeded and looted everything. Pope Leon XII sought to repopulate this house, becoming an annex to villa medici. The Pope brought the nuns founded by Saint Madeleine Sophie barat to make a college for young girls: in 1828 arrived from the nuns of the sacred heart of Turin, and founded a boarding school of young girls. For "the glory of the heart of Jesus" also, they also opened a free school for poor children in the neighborhood. . The "Mater Admirabilis" represents the virgin at It is the work of a student of the French school of the trinity ...