Blessed Fra Angelico

Scenes from San Marco, Florence, painted by the Dominican Friar Fra Angelico (died 1455), Blessed John of Fiesole, patron of artists. Father Michael Morris, O.P., writes in Magnificat, February 2010: “While living at the Dominican house of San Marco in Florence, Fra Angelico painted in each friar’s cell a scene drawn from Scripture and tradition, a pictorial representation that would inspire the occupant to pray in the manner of the order’s founder, Saint Dominic. The frescoes are an eloquent expression of