The Basilica of San Domenico

The Chapel of the Vaults

  • The Chapel of the Vaults, also called the Chapel of the Miracles, is the starting point for getting to know the figure of Saint Catherine.

    In this space, which is raised higher than the rest of the nave, where the Dominican tertiaries (called 'mantellate' because they wore a cloak, mantello in Italian) would gather to pray, Catherine lived a large part of her extraordinary mystical . . .