St. Catherine of Siena The Dominican Saints of the Church of Sen Piyer Saint Catherine (1347-1380) was born in Siena (Italy). At the age of 12, she rejected an arranged marriage because she wanted to devote herself completely to God. She wanted to join the group of blessed Dominican widows (veiled). Although the abbess of the …
St Vincent Ferrer The Dominican Saints of the Church of Sen Piyer St. Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419) was born in Valencia (Spain). He travelled all over Europe, calling tirelessly for people to renounce sin, carrying out miraculous healing and announcing the Divine Judgement. Iconography The painting shows St. Vincent healing a paralysed patient. A flame above …
Saint Hyacinth The saints of the church of Sen Piyer Saint Hyacinth (1183-1257) was born in Silesia (Poland). After his religious education, he met St. Dominic in Bologna and decided to enter his religious order. He founded a monastery in Poland and a few in Kiev.. IconographyThe painting depicts the story of the rescue of …
https://youtu.be/zVI3kNOLn0Ehttps://youtu.be/Yz-D7zH-tm8 Interreligious Prayer and Sharing On April 22, 2020, an interreligious meeting of prayer and sharing took place in Istanbul, to which 13 representatives of churches, religions and rites joined. In this time of pandemic, this moment, organized by the Committee of the Latin Catholic Church of Istanbul for Interreligious Relations, was intended as a …
This event has been cancelled! A lectio by Msgr. Paolo Bizzeti, S.J. Msgr. Paolo has not only been the Apostolic Vicar of Anatolia, a dioceses which includes Antioch and Tarsus, since 2015, but he also possesses a profound knowledge of Turkey’s biblical history. In 2008 he published a commentary on the Acts of the Apostles …
Balyan Efsanesi Yeni Arşiv Belgeleri Işığında Osmanlı İstanbul’unu ve Ermeni Cematini Şekillendiren bir Ailenin Tarihi Kuşaklar boyunca Osmanlı saray mimarlığını ellerinde bulundurabilen ve mimarlığı babadan oğla aktaran Balyan Ailesi, bugün İstanbul’un sembolleri haline gelen birçok yapının mimarı. Osmanlı mimarisinin yaşadığı dönüşümlerin başlıca aktörleri olan, Osmanlı mimarlığını ve inşa sektörünü şekillendiren, uluslarası ölçekte yapım ve tedarik …
Christmas Celebrations times and places Christmas VigilDecember 24th 2019 7:30 pm Church of our Lady of the Rosary, Rüya sk.,Bakırköy (Turkish)10 pm Saint George’s Church, Eski Bankalar Caddesi, Galata (German) Christmas DayDecember 25th 2019 6:30 pm Saint Peter’s Church, Galata Kulesi sk. Galata (Multilingual) Christmas timeDecember 26th 2019 – January 3th 20208 am Divine Office & Daily Mass (except …
Ecumenical Prayer / Preghiera Ecumenica
An prayer in the style of the Taizé community open to everybody.
Songs and reading in many many many languages
