This is the first of two posts featuring meditations on frescoes painted by Fra Angelico on the walls of the cells at San Marco monastery in Fiesole, near Florence, by Br John Paul Puschautz, who is a Dominican of the Western Province in the US.

The first is the Annunciation. John Paul has just completed his STL, and his thesis title was "Visio Divina with the Art of Fra Angelico as Mental Pilgrimage: A Way of Beauty and Perfection." It is a scholarly development of a method of prayer analogous to lectio divina that uses sacred art for meditation rather than scriptural passages.

I don't know if any book publishers are reading this, but it strikes me that his thesis would be excellent material for a book. Certainly, I would buy it and promote it if it was published! You can contact him through opwest.org.