Around the Priory

The "Winter Chapel" where we have been celebrating Mass in English each morning. It is so-called because it is nearly impossible to heat the Bascilica Church in the winter time, so this is where the community sings the Office and celebrates Mass.


The painting (yes, it's painted to look like a mosaic) of the patron, St. Stephen the Protomartyr. The artist Joseph Aubert painted the three images in the sanctuary (this, St. John the Baptist and Christ) for the side altars of important saints such as St. Joseph, St. Catherine of Alexandria, St. Jerome, St. Mary Magdalane and St. Dominic. They were done in 1900.