Dominican monastery in Jablonné v Podještědí, Dominican monastery and cultural monument in Jablonné v Podještědí, Czech Republic.
The Dominican monastery in Jablonné v Podještedí is a baroque complex centered on the Church of St Lawrence and St Zdislava with a prominent dome rising above the grounds. The site includes exhibition spaces for art displays and underground chambers that serve as part of the monastery structure.
The monastery was founded around the middle of the 13th century and remained in its original form for centuries. The baroque structures that define it today were created in the early 18th century, when the church received its final architectural form.
Pilgrims come to the church to venerate St Zdislava, buried in the crypt; her tomb was fitted with an iron grille in 1596. Devotion spread nationwide through Berthold Pontanus of Most, a Prague canon and poet, and in 1995 Pope John Paul II canonized her. The monastery still houses a small Dominican community.
The monastery stands in the centre of Jablonné v Podještědí, and the baroque convent buildings adjoin the pilgrimage church of St Lawrence and St Zdislava. The church became the parish church in 1788, so it serves the town's ordinary Catholic services as well as pilgrims. The Dominicans still live in the convent and also serve the parishes of Jítrava and Žibřidice.
Zdislava of Lemberk, buried in the church crypt, was beatified in 1907 and canonized by John Paul II on 21 May 1995; in 2000 the same pope named her main patroness of the Litoměřice diocese. Her tomb, fitted with an iron grille in 1596, drew processions from the 16th century on.
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