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St Thomas d'Aquin - l'église des Jacobins. DHSPrioryJuly 10, 2008 L'Ensemble Conventuel des Jacobins de Toulouse, ancien couvent des Frères Prêcheurs, est un magnifique exemple de construction monastique …More
St Thomas d'Aquin - l'église des Jacobins.
DHSPrioryJuly 10, 2008 L'Ensemble Conventuel des Jacobins de Toulouse, ancien couvent des Frères Prêcheurs, est un magnifique exemple de construction monastique des XIIIe et XIVe siècles, entièrement réalisé en briques, véritable joyau de l'art gothique languedocien.
L'église est un monument exceptionnel empreint d'une profonde harmonie qui, en réalité, n'est qu'apparence. Cette très forte impression d'unité dissimule, de fait, une construction compliquée, réalisée en étapes successives qui répondaient à des besoins sans cesse renouvelés de l'Ordre des Frères Prêcheurs alors en pleine expansion.
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The city of Toulouse is the cradle of the Dominican Order. It was in Toulouse and its surrounding towns that St. Dominic and the first friars began to live their new evangelical life as mendicant preachers. Their importance for the city of Toulouse can be measured by looking at the magnificent medieval Dominican church — sadly, confiscated by the French state and now run as a state-owned museum —…More
The city of Toulouse is the cradle of the Dominican Order. It was in Toulouse and its surrounding towns that St. Dominic and the first friars began to live their new evangelical life as mendicant preachers. Their importance for the city of Toulouse can be measured by looking at the magnificent medieval Dominican church — sadly, confiscated by the French state and now run as a state-owned museum — known as the Jacobin. One of the greatest treasures of that great church was (and still is) the relics of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Every year on January 28, the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Dominicans of the Toulouse Province of France are permitted by the French Government to celebrate a solemn Mass at the (modern) altar over the relics of the Angelic Doctor in the Jacobin church
. After the Mass, the friars carry the great reliquary in a procession through the ancient cloister, once inhabited by so many generations of friars preachers.