In summer of 1951, artist Henri Matisse went to Paris to see the Notre Dame Cathedral: "the immense crowds, heads as far as one could see, the architecture, the stained-glass windows and at times, the waves of the music of the organ passing over the heads was most impressive. Upon leaving, I said to myself: Very well! All of this considered, what is my chapel? And then I thought: it is a flower. It is only a flower, but it is a flower."

At the end of last year, we added Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence to our itinerary in the South of France, and spent a warm and quiet morning wandering through said flower...

Upstairs to the chapel, a library of priest garments were on display in life sized glass boxes. The Priest's chasubles and accessories were made by the Dominican Sisters of Crépieux, near Lyon, specialists in liturgical clothing.

The fabric chosen: silk poplin, the colours were decided by Matisse, notes of his reading the combinations for: rose, bleu, blanc, noir, et vert.