St. Dominic's Church
Baroque colonial church with a turbulent four-century history and a treasury museum of sacred art.
This guide to St. Dominic's Church in Macau opens with a Spanish officer fleeing into it during mass in sixteen forty-four, chased by a mob after Macau shifted allegiance from Spain to Portugal. It reaches back to the Dominican friars who built the first church in fifteen eighty-seven after sailing from Acapulco, only to be expelled within a year on orders from the viceroy in Goa. It also covers a seventeen-oh-seven standoff, when the bishop excommunicated the friars over the Chinese Rites dispute and soldiers were sent to enforce it. Stand in the square to see a baroque facade that looks far calmer than its history.
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