One of 27 frescoes depicting the life, miracles and visions of NULL. This image depicts Santa Francesca and her oblates making their first oblation to the Olivetan monks of Santa Maria Nova on August 15, 1425. The high monk, represented with the largest head, makes a sign of authority toward the oblates.
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Tor de' Specchi
This is part of a series of 27 frescoes lining the fifteenth-century Cappella Vecchia (Old Chapel) of the Tor de'Specchi (Tower of Mirrors) convent that depict the life, miracles and visions of Santa Francesca Romana. Nicknamed Ceccolella, Santa Francesca Romana (Francesca Bussa de' Ponziani, 1384-1440) founded this Benedictine Order of oblates while a wife and mother of six children. She was the daughter of Paul and Jacobella Bussa and married Roman nobleman Lorenzo de Ponziani at the age of thirteen. She established the convent in 1425 in an old house called the Tor de'Specchi at the foot of the Capitol. The Order was formally founded in 1433 under the guidance of the Olivetan monks of Santa Maria Nova (later called Santa Francesca Romana). Santa Francesca Romana entered the house herself in 1436 after her husband died and lived there until she died in 1440. She was canonized in 1608.
S. Francesca Romana a Tor de'Specchi, Italy, Rome, Tor de' Specchi: Francesca heals man with diseased leg, <60>, Italy, Rome, Tor de' Specchi: Oblates harvesting grapes, Rome, Italy, Tor de' Specchi: Funeral of Francesca de 'Bussa, Italy, Rome, Tor de' Specchi: Francesca heals man with wounded arm. For more information on this cycle of frescoes, see Three scenes from the legend of Santa Francesca Romana, Francesca Romana, la santa di Roma, Le mani che guarirono la città : storia di santa Francesca Romana.
The Tor de' Specchi is in the ruins of the Temple of Amor and Roma, between the Basilica of Maxentius and the Arch of Titus in the Forum Romanum, Rome, Italy.
Tor de' Specchi,Rome, Italy
