The Dominican Friars are inviting people in the DC area to join them for Compline (Night Prayer) at 6:45PM every evening during Lent at St. Dominic Church - Washington DC (630 E St., SW Washington, DC). Please join us! Video Credit: Fr. Juan Macias Marquez, O.P. | Dominican Friars of the Province of Saint Joseph

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Plautilla Nelli was a Renaissance nun born in 1524 into a wealthy Florentine family who entered a Dominican convent at age fourteen and taught herself the art of painting. Within the convent that encouraged devotional art she rose to lead an all-female workshop and eventually became prioress. In the 1560s she created a monumental 21-foot-long oil painting of The Last Supper signed with the humble phrase Pray for the paintress. Although her work was lost for centuries it was restored over four ye