Centre Cultural La Nau, Sala Duc de Calàbria
| Schedule: | Free entrance: Thursday, from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 20:00 hours |
| Group visits: Monday - Friday. Reservations: visites.guiades@uv.es | |
| Closed on weekends and public holidays |
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Josep Agramunt, O. P. El Palacio Real de la Sabiduría. (The Royal Palace of Wisdom). Biblioteca Històrica de la Universitat de València, ms. 148
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Vicerectorat de Cultura i Igualtat de la Universitat de València
Biblioteca Històrica de la Universitat de València
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Inventory of the cancelled convent funds deposited in the provisional museum located at the former convent of the Carmen’s neighbourhood (Doc. B)
Biblioteca Històrica de la Universitat de València
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On the occasion of the 800 years of the foundation of the Order of Friar Preachers, the Historical Library wants to show the rich bibliographic found in its custody. All the documents coming from the Preachers Convent of Valencia as well as other documents that arrived to the University after the Ecclesiastical confiscations of Mendizábal in 1837.
The exhibition, in addition to disseminate part of the university bibliographic heritage, goes through the tasks done by the order in the fields of evangelization and education.
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Descripcion de los nueue modos de orar que estilaua S[an]to Domingo ([between 1701 and 1750]).
Detail. Biblioteca Històrica de la Universitat de València, MS. 0700 (06)
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Since the creation as a order in 1216, the founder, Saint Dominic, knew very clearly the fundamental role of his brothers education, in order to teach you must know, and for this reason he send some of his brothers to the universities of Paris and Bologna. From that moment on, they started founding convents all around the world, in Europe but also in America, Africa and Asia.
Among their tasks as missionaries, it was important the defence of the indigenous’ human rights, and the greatest exponent of this doctrine was friar Bartolomé de las Casas.
Dominicans also participated in the education of the indigenous population, through the creation of university centres, as is the case of the University of Lima and Manila.
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Iacopo, da Varazze, Flos sanctorum / nouament stampat corregit y ben examinat, per lo reuerent mossen Cathalunya, afegides certes vides que fins aci no eren. Detail. Biblioteca Històrica de la Universitat de València, BH R-1/315
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The Dominican Order has among them saints, popes, cardinals, doctors and teachers, not only in theology, but also in science, history, geography, arts, etc.
They were appointed by the pope as defenders of the faith (Defenso fidei) and participated actively in the Inquisition.
In 1283 they arrived to Valencia together with Jaume I and founded convents and monasteries, some of them currently gone. Among the most known sons stand out the figures of Saint Vicent Ferrer and Saint Louis Bertrand, of a great influence in our history.
