Franciscan Church and Monastery

This guide to the Franciscan Church and Monastery in Dubrovnik starts in 1317, when friars near the city gate began grinding rose petals and wild herbs into remedies they treated as close to sacred, guarding each recipe like scripture. It follows that pharmacy through seven centuries, past an earthquake in 1667 that flattened the church next door, and asks what actually kept the ritual alive this long. Listen for how a fourteenth-century mortar and pestle still shape what pharmacists measure out at the counter today.