Oranges From Dominic's Tree: Selected Poems by Dominican Friars, Sisters and Laity

by Matthew Powell

The title of this anthology, Oranges From Dominic's Tree, comes from the tradition that Saint Dominic planted an orange tree in the garden of the Priory of Santa Sabina in Rome. A series of oranges trees have grown in that garden for almost nine hundred years, each taken from a shoot of the previous tree. (In her poem, The Orange Leaf, Sister Mary Stanislaus McCarthy commemorates that tree.) Dominic's tree still produces oranges. The orange is an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162311022X
• ISBN13: 9781623110222
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: New Priory Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"