tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39037333353294337122024-03-13T23:17:21.891-07:00Churches on SundaysMy worship and my witness.
I started photographing churches as "The House of God" as part of my Year 2000 Project and have continued ever since. This blog is a tribute to the congregations who built these churches and that keep open the doors of these places of Christian renewal and service. Thanks be to God.Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.comBlogger382125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-49711067288970552142022-07-16T16:26:00.000-07:002022-07-16T16:26:54.390-07:00<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></div></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>To Lord in Your mercy please respond with "Hear our prayers."</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Almighty and everlasting God,we are taught by your Holy Word to offer praises and supplications </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">and to give thanks for all people. We humbly pray that You would mercifully receive our prayers. Inspire continually, we pray, the universal church with the spirit of truth, unity and concord and grant that all that confess your Holy name my agree in the truth of Your Hy Word and live in unity and God's love.</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Lord in Your mercy. "Hear our prayers</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">"</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Special prayers are requested for the following.</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>For the families of the 1500 killed in the earthquake in Afghanastan, as well as the 2000 injured.</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>A de-escalation of the war in the Ukraine,. May the conflict not spread. May God in the midst of the wickedness draw many tot he Prince of Peace.</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>God's guidance of St. Timothy's.</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>God's healing and peace for Derk (Hazel's brother-in-law) Corinne Burns, Bill Fane, Lynda (Paddy's friend) Irene (Bible Study friend) Seana (Bhakti's faunt) Tonii F (Erica' F</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">rancis' </b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">mother) and Amy Pankratz.</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>The US Supreme Court as it prepares to release its decision on abortion.</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" trbidi="on"><br /></div></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Lord in Your mercy. "Hear our prayers</b></span><b>"</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Lord in Your mercy. "Hear our prayers</b></span><b>"</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>We pray for the following churches in the Anglican Network of Churches: St. Thomas Mission, Vancouer and Immanual Church, Vancouver.</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>On the North Shore we pray for: Westside Church and West Vancouver Baptist Church.</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>God give strength and direction to the Wyclife Bible Translation Mission of Shayron Thompson.</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>And tp tis congregation bless Corinne Burns and Rev Paul and Lois Carter.</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Lord in Your mercy. "Hear our prayers</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">"</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">We remember before you Lord, all your servants departed from this life in faith and we bless your holy name for all who in life and death gave glorified You praying that you praying that You will give us grace, , that rejoicing in that fellowship we may follow their good examples and with them be partakers of your heavenly kingdom.</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Dear God, giver of life, we pray that you will turn all Canada into a culture that values and embraces all human life, including the lives of the m ost vulnerable. the preborn, the elderly, the informed, and the handicapped.<br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">We pray for all persecuted Christians. Give them strength and courage. And God, open the hearts of their persecutors that they may hear your truth and your way.</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Reader-(Heavenly Lord, in your mercy, </b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">{eople-Hear our prayers.</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Heavenly Father, grant these our prayers for jesus Christ's sake our only Mediator and Advocate sho lives and reigns with You, world without end. Amen</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">k</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">The altar flowers today are given to the Glory of God and in </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">AN 80TH BIRTHDAY EPISTL </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"> FOR ROB FLINT-2020</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2N0FdPtIpxiwd61JKSPGHJSppUe-ORtF36s-lexswVM8Q8o_LlyQRxYYdWtwut-5cBMQyNs75rBiX8zN8_9BsaVXQIE0ukKySLYAvtUz13TAAYOheyonvvjH2VfGw6t6mT8wEPyfRtGE/s1600/Portland+055+-+Copy.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1206" data-original-width="1600" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2N0FdPtIpxiwd61JKSPGHJSppUe-ORtF36s-lexswVM8Q8o_LlyQRxYYdWtwut-5cBMQyNs75rBiX8zN8_9BsaVXQIE0ukKySLYAvtUz13TAAYOheyonvvjH2VfGw6t6mT8wEPyfRtGE/s400/Portland+055+-+Copy.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Rob, Sue, Alan, Suza</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">nne</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Portland Restaurant, 2017</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Dear Rob.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Happy Birthday to you on this 3rd day of April, the 20th year of the century of the 2000s.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I am sitting here at my computer in North Vancouver, Canada,wrapped in a blanket, on this chilly day in March. I should be at Bible Study, but it was canceled because of the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">coronavirus crisis. What a year you have picked for your 80th birthday. But the good part is I get to sit here and think about all the good times we have had with you over the years, wonderful memories.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Of course, I remember your and Sue's wedding. It was a 3 day affair with party after party. Alan took videos with our new fancy and big video recorder. Each one was 3 minutes. Today he could record the whole event with his phone. Progress. One of the best memories, besides the beautiful bride with her hair on top of her head and her old fashion wedding dress, was was spending time with Sue's parents and seeing all the members of your family.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Since then there have been many stays at your guest house as we visited our kids in SF and on our way to LA to visit Alan's old high school friends. We even stayed with you when you were rebuilding your Woodside house, slept on the floor of the temporary house. You and Sue have always been so gracious.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Years ago when you came to visit us here at our house on Shavington St. in North Vancouver you helped Alan put up a post in our backyard. Yes, it is still standing. And each night when I take a hot tub I hang on to it as I go down the steps. Thanks. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But the high point of the trip was when Alan took you to the Port Moody Legion for a traditional Canadain "meat draw". "Pork sausages, hamburger, steak! Get your tickets here!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Thanks, too, for being part of our children's weddings, Richard Halloween wedding in the Height, and Laura's wedding in Spokane. And of course, there was your witty limerick at Laura's wedding.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">There was even the year Alan stopped for an overnight on his motorcycle trip South. He arrived at 9:30 pm, passed bedtime for you two, but you still welcomed the weary traveler.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Our most recent memory is of our meeting you in Portland at Alexi's house. We went out to a rustic restaurant to celebrate Alan and my 50th wedding anniversary. You and I sat on the restaurant porch and chatted while Alan and Sue organized where we were going to sit for dinner.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I think back over the years as Alexis and Katie were being born and seeing them as little kids. And now you have 4 more little ones, the grandchildren, to celebrate with. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">So Alan and I wish you a very Happy 80th Birthday. We will be thinking of you on April 3rd, celebrating with your loving wife and family.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>2020</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>TO ROB</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>FILLED WITH SO MANY WONDERFUL MEMORIES</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>LOVINGLY,</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>ALAN AND SUZANNE</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>MADE </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>BY</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>SELF</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>ISOLATION</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>PRESS</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2020</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"PORTLAND OREGON, 2017"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span class="text Num-6-24" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; position: relative; text-align: start;">2021</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Dear Rita,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="text Num-6-25" id="en-NIV-3849" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; position: relative; text-align: start;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"><br /></span>"...May the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> make his </span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="text Num-6-25" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; position: relative; text-align: start;">face shine </span></span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="text Num-6-25" style="background-color: white; position: relative; text-align: start;">on you </span><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Num-6-25" style="position: relative;">and </span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-25" style="position: relative;">be gracious to you;</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="text Num-6-26" id="en-NIV-3850" style="background-color: white; position: relative; text-align: start;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>May the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> turn his face </span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="background-color: white; position: relative; text-align: start;">toward you</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: start;" /><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Num-6-26" style="position: relative;">and give you peace."</span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;">(Numbers)</span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;">HAPPY BIRTHDAY</span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;"> BIKE MESSENGE</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;"> BAGS & POUCHES</b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> BY</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> RIK</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> VANCOUVER B.C.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> </b></span></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> BIKE MESSENGER </b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </b><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> BAGS & POUCHES</b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> BY</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> RIK</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> VANCOUVER B.C.</b><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> </b></span></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> BIKE MESSENGER </b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </b><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> BAGS & POUCHES</b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> BY</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> RIK</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> VANCOUVER B.C.</b><b> </b></span></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> </b></span></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> BIKE MESSENGER </b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </b><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> BAGS & POUCHES</b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> BY</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> RIK</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> VANCOUVER B.C.</b><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> </b></span></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> BIKE MESSENGER </b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </b><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> BAGS & POUCHES</b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> BY</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> RIK</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> VANCOUVER B.C.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b> </b></span></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> BIKE MESSENGER </b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </b><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> BAGS & POUCHES</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b> BY</b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b> RIK</b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b> VANCOUVER B.C.</b><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b> </b></span></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> BIKE MESSENGER </b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </b><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> BAGS & POUCHES</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b> BY</b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b> RIK</b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b> VANCOUVER B.C.</b></span></span></div></span></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="text Num-6-26" style="font-size: large; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-85633508352910051862021-08-04T11:55:00.123-07:002021-08-04T11:55:00.184-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_q7YMleyLXtqvGaYivYWhJJGza291OIev8823MkSPXEFiOOh6rLQucvx2vssshy9OBHSZvNgDmhEW8wQTfq7KFCa2mMIQeyq5vEREFY9Lpf5q86SinmWNSX2qJFbTAlxS1PbJcNUJTN8/s1568/St.+John%2527s+002.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1568" data-original-width="1046" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_q7YMleyLXtqvGaYivYWhJJGza291OIev8823MkSPXEFiOOh6rLQucvx2vssshy9OBHSZvNgDmhEW8wQTfq7KFCa2mMIQeyq5vEREFY9Lpf5q86SinmWNSX2qJFbTAlxS1PbJcNUJTN8/s320/St.+John%2527s+002.JPG" /></b></a></div><b>St. John's Church</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Hyde Park</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>London, England<br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;">St. John's Church</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;">London, England</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b>"The Cmmissioners for Building New Churches... asked Charles Fowler to draw up ... plans which he did expeditiously by 1829. His plan for St John’s -- a 13th Century style Gothic church -- It took three years to build and on the 26th January 1832 the Lord Bishop of London, the Right Reverend and Right Honourable Dr Charles James Blomfield, consecrated St John’s Chapel, also known as the Connaught Chapel.uary 1832 It was designed to seat 1500, with 700 free seats and the rest rented – the pews in all churches used to be rented for annual charges. The total pew rentals in St John’s, which were paid to the wardens to cover expenses, were valued at £681 a year.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE_XLalyRSbg1GHMVt5o9b04_or_Cx53_ouTpWhe6Glhqv4GdUY5_RRJkwVcZuvWdytWEOxoFFVLQbie1TheD696f8I0Kk5CXu_3eG53XVH39OkZ8pel0TyQ2w88B-X2sXk4krbLFo174/s1770/St.+John%2527s+003.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1770" data-original-width="1252" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE_XLalyRSbg1GHMVt5o9b04_or_Cx53_ouTpWhe6Glhqv4GdUY5_RRJkwVcZuvWdytWEOxoFFVLQbie1TheD696f8I0Kk5CXu_3eG53XVH39OkZ8pel0TyQ2w88B-X2sXk4krbLFo174/s320/St.+John%2527s+003.JPG" /></a></div><b> St. John's Church, London England</b><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b>"The church as we know it today is not the one we would have seen in 1832 or even at the turn of the 20th Century. The interior was darker; it was lit with candles, then gas lamps, and finally electric lighting in the late 1800s. There was a triforium, or balcony over each of the side aisles as well as over the entrance. Between the wooden pews, there was a row of paired chairs going down the nave leading up to the chancel. St John’s had a capacity of 2,200 people with 1,500 subscription seats and 700 free seats in the triforium. The pulpit, with its spiral staircase, was in front of the left row of pews attached to the rood screen, now at the entrance of the church. The baptismal font was located at the northwest corner. The high altar, from St Michael’s Star Street was originally in the north transept in front of the organ, which was The Lady Chapel until the reordering in 2011. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b>"After the Second World War the parish and the church fell on hard times when the area became less desirable and people moved to the suburbs. The church was even occasionally closed between 1962 and 1965...</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaCjuGjwvQuYfF5b0ma6LEyvzTPymmjtjG0-1UFXOk6FEed7odOo_sasi7bFajbcdAm26FQ15028LVasZBijizemFzcaqxn0-EPBDO8SCvXc9360KtjiU6KHz9L9-kDqjLiw7yUj1J_Vs/s1649/St.+John%2527s+001.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1649" data-original-width="1100" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaCjuGjwvQuYfF5b0ma6LEyvzTPymmjtjG0-1UFXOk6FEed7odOo_sasi7bFajbcdAm26FQ15028LVasZBijizemFzcaqxn0-EPBDO8SCvXc9360KtjiU6KHz9L9-kDqjLiw7yUj1J_Vs/s320/St.+John%2527s+001.JPG" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b>"In 2011 the old Victorian heating system was replaced and the pine pews (which came from America) were sold or auctioned off to raise funds for the beautiful new floor. The rood screen was relocated to the area behind the seating to create a narthex. Additional changes include the installation of toilets on the south side of the porch, while a much-needed kitchen was re-fitted on the north side. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b>"St John’s has long had a strong association with music in London. It employs eight choral scholars and an organ scholar per year, drawn from the best London conservatories." (Link.)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="font-size: 18px;"><b> </b> *******</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b style="font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px;">Photos: Taken by Lina in 2020 while she was living and working in London, England.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span color="rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7)" face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="font-size: 18px;"><b>Linc: </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px;"><span color="rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.701960784313725)" face="adobe-garamond-pro"><b>https://www.stjohns-hydepark.com/moreaboutus/2016/7/21/history-of-st-johns-hyde-park</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b> </b> </p></div>
<br />
<br /></div>
</div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-18172890208588458202021-01-10T08:53:00.001-08:002021-01-13T09:50:15.713-08:00<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpRQDQoKHicafslBQ9NrJyfhTdmoYJGHu0QjF2SmFnfzBKLinZV9ThInA9xwVfmn1l8DAFv-Q_54dBwXIVxHWTqjqRZswgjFHMOS5XZfRnMELsHdNSCLZ2o28QWvzDPJUoJWSyxw3CTxA/s2048/lina1+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1366" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpRQDQoKHicafslBQ9NrJyfhTdmoYJGHu0QjF2SmFnfzBKLinZV9ThInA9xwVfmn1l8DAFv-Q_54dBwXIVxHWTqjqRZswgjFHMOS5XZfRnMELsHdNSCLZ2o28QWvzDPJUoJWSyxw3CTxA/s320/lina1+001.JPG" /></a></div><p></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"> <b style="font-family: georgia;"> Catholic Church of St. Monica, Hoxton Square , </b></span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"> London Eng</b>la<b style="font-family: georgia;">nd</b></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> <b>Catholic Church of St. Monica</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Hoxton Square, London England</b></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtILa3w3x5Bu41IZG6R_MeFOPaGHMDvSA2vBTurtlgXftEclEFCzEPLfqWRoQlHPM-6rW3QA3ZKekeKRzJ5gPBTdwSHMV3q1yQ3Cc9o2cJRb2b2gI_vcEwv0rJFjG_W63orqRj10_UYg8/s1304/Lina+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1304" data-original-width="870" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtILa3w3x5Bu41IZG6R_MeFOPaGHMDvSA2vBTurtlgXftEclEFCzEPLfqWRoQlHPM-6rW3QA3ZKekeKRzJ5gPBTdwSHMV3q1yQ3Cc9o2cJRb2b2gI_vcEwv0rJFjG_W63orqRj10_UYg8/s320/Lina+010.JPG" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Church Plaque</span></b><br /></span><p></p></blockquote><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.03em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"Step inside our church on Hoxton Square, an oasis of calm tucked away in cutting edge cool Shoreditch. </b></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.03em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.03em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"Statues of St Augustine and St Monica stand to the left and right of the high altar, waiting to greet all visitors.</b></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>" </b></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.03em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"A grade II listed 19th century church built between 1864 - 1866, our building is an example of Edward Welby Pugin's work.</b></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.03em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.03em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZt6cPC7q5lKBXjatl9Y5C0TcGQI8Pzm5PDR6kPjhlCB-H2QC4A2kz0b2t2jsTOAE2iC-LJXx7c0bdrmkB2Q99vznS0VB3JSQpgOeVxJjr2G2hL6bMlKUgs6xduGIYvy1glSMK5rx1Kuo/s970/Lina+011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="970" data-original-width="693" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZt6cPC7q5lKBXjatl9Y5C0TcGQI8Pzm5PDR6kPjhlCB-H2QC4A2kz0b2t2jsTOAE2iC-LJXx7c0bdrmkB2Q99vznS0VB3JSQpgOeVxJjr2G2hL6bMlKUgs6xduGIYvy1glSMK5rx1Kuo/s320/Lina+011.JPG" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Sanctuary</b><br /><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.03em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.03em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #4c250b; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"The outside of the church is distinctive of a typical Pugin design. The </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #4c250b; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">description on historicengland.org.uk is apt - "... <a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253428" rel="noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span class="color_14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">a rare surviving composition of church, school and priory by an important architect who here produced a cheap building that nevertheless has considerable distinction</span></span></a></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #4c250b; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"</span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.03em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #4c250b; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.03em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #4c250b; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"To put the quote into context, the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.thepuginsociety.co.uk/bio.html" rel="noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Pugin Society</a></span> estimated that the cost of a typical unendowed urban church ranged between £3000 - £10000, depending the size and date of building. In contrast, the Cobh Cathedral, begun in 1867, cost £235000 by the time it was completed in 1915. (L"ink 1.)</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.03em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #4c250b; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE-7W8fA_9-ZzW5n3JFUYxcPGMMu-uKrxYv0Bfyo5hK6JoM_wErO3CsQ1b9RYp3mcA95JWxFxpMXslGssmKJzEsyRIJSZmWdc7uiGYRv5gxVTPNJL5HyZ9XzzMeufbm7NxRGxSG8ftu9I/s1575/Lina+008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1575" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE-7W8fA_9-ZzW5n3JFUYxcPGMMu-uKrxYv0Bfyo5hK6JoM_wErO3CsQ1b9RYp3mcA95JWxFxpMXslGssmKJzEsyRIJSZmWdc7uiGYRv5gxVTPNJL5HyZ9XzzMeufbm7NxRGxSG8ftu9I/s320/Lina+008.JPG" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Front Window of Church</b></div></span><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"Saint Monica (c. 332 – 387 AD) was an earlyAfrican <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Christianity">Christian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Saint">saint</a> and the mother of St. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Augustine of Hippo">Augustine of Hippo</a>. She is remembered and honored in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, albeit on different feast days, for her outstanding <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_virtues" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Christian virtues">Christian virtues</a>, particularly the suffering caused by her husband's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultery" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Adultery">adultery</a>, and her prayerful life dedicated to the reformation of her son, who wrote extensively of her pious acts and life with her in his <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_(St._Augustine)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Confessions (St. Augustine)">Confessions</a></i>. Popular Christian legends recall Saint Monica <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrimation" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Lacrimation">weeping</a> every night for her son Augustine " (Link 2.)</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> ****************</b></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Photos: Taken by iPhone in December 2020 by Lina whitle living and working in London, Engla</b></span>nd. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Link 1: https://www.stmonicaschurchhoxton.org/about-us</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Llink 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Monica</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> <u>Prayer</u></b><br /><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"><u><br /></u></b><br /></span><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div></div></div></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></p>Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-67778838945303245172020-12-27T12:21:00.162-08:002020-12-27T12:21:02.847-08:00<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPhEagcC9rDY5EFm3Il5lULw9aAey1pJHEPO2MEgwlxFhSrSMMK32Il4fhWE749RMTN1HCp39eCmcUCy8gn2MWY5oGf3ZjLkofmeTfgKXu7RVw3Nkm0Khn1kqNv-ysXDTuTQ92LYsoyt4/s1600/Dustan+4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPhEagcC9rDY5EFm3Il5lULw9aAey1pJHEPO2MEgwlxFhSrSMMK32Il4fhWE749RMTN1HCp39eCmcUCy8gn2MWY5oGf3ZjLkofmeTfgKXu7RVw3Nkm0Khn1kqNv-ysXDTuTQ92LYsoyt4/s400/Dustan+4.JPG" width="400" /></a></li></ol></blockquote><p> <b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>Parish Church of St. Dunstan and All Saints</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">INDEX</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">2020</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>London</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;">-<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Parish Church of St. Dunstan and All Saints, </u></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span>Stepney, London, </span></b><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span> Borough </span></b><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span>of Tower Hamlets, </span></b><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span>Province of Canterbury, February 2, 2020.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">- </span></b></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>St. Georges, Hanover Square, </u>City of Westminster, </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> London, </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">England, December 6, 2020.</b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">-</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u>St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge,</u> Knightsbridge,London, November </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">29, 2020.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>-<u>St. Bride's Chirch, Fleet Street</u>, City of London, England, November</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> 22, 2020.</b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>-<span><span><u>St. John's Church</u>, L<span> London, England, September 9, 2020.</span></span></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-decoration-line: underline;">Westminster Cathedral</span><span style="font-size: medium;">, </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">London, England, March 8, 2020</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">.</b></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>-</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>San Fedele of Como Catholic Church, </u></b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Milan, Italy, February, 16, 2020.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">-</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>Esglesia de Santa Susanna</u>, </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Catonia, Province of Barcelona, Spain, March 29, 2020.</b></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;">-London- "</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;"><u>Westminster Cathedral</u>", 3/8/20.</b></span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Stepney[</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Lon</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">0.</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">don Borough of Tower Hamlets</b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Province of Canterbury-"</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>Parish Church of</u></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> <u> St. Dustan and All Saints</u>", 2/2/20.</b></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;"><u>Spain</u></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;"> </span></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Girona Catonia- "</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> <u>Esglesia de Sant Pere Church</u> </b><br /><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> <u>Figures</u>", 1/19/20.</b><br /><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Catonia, Province of Barcelona-"</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> <u>Esglesia de Santa</u> </b><br /><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> <u>Susanna</u>", 3/29/20.</b><br /><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><u>I<b>taly</b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Milan-" </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u>San Fedele of Como Catholic Church</u>"<u>,</u></span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> 2/6/20.</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;">,</p>Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-6944249362199620702020-12-06T09:41:00.001-08:002020-12-06T09:41:00.336-08:00<p style="text-align: center;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPQAf7S-Nwxngf0XIhmAFN2Nd7xPIRvH4gLsyxefuPqL_YfcaTrU_0azjNSKx7X9IvklbA1wU-1FWkqDfBB206qadTgkxNkBN4Slj24yAb-GqXOONwk_iY5NfZBV5n_-maZwZ7pkgftxA/s1481/St+Georges%252C+hanover+002.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1185" data-original-width="1481" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPQAf7S-Nwxngf0XIhmAFN2Nd7xPIRvH4gLsyxefuPqL_YfcaTrU_0azjNSKx7X9IvklbA1wU-1FWkqDfBB206qadTgkxNkBN4Slj24yAb-GqXOONwk_iY5NfZBV5n_-maZwZ7pkgftxA/s320/St+Georges%252C+hanover+002.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">St. Georges, Hanover Square</b></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>ST. GEORGES, HANOVER SQUARE</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>CITY OF WESTMINSTER</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>LONDON ENGLAND</b></span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBBzChR_gjsF2w2-eOSP-FELggIAlxQSlNtcZakiJ0UNlgVNCCX_MlzJPYX24_zcEWyv-o-Q5pqUz_zd0AAztPmGdOjEft-e1fqm9Pn6ULYEETDTTK1aaGtKiqFzEznFkt-Do6pMDznqI/s1740/St+Georges%252C+hanover+010.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1740" data-original-width="1161" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBBzChR_gjsF2w2-eOSP-FELggIAlxQSlNtcZakiJ0UNlgVNCCX_MlzJPYX24_zcEWyv-o-Q5pqUz_zd0AAztPmGdOjEft-e1fqm9Pn6ULYEETDTTK1aaGtKiqFzEznFkt-Do6pMDznqI/s320/St+Georges%252C+hanover+010.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Front Altar</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">"St George's, Hanover Square</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">, is an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;" title="Church of England">Anglican</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> church in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Westminster" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;" title="City of Westminster">City of Westminster</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_London" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;" title="Central London">central London</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">, built in the early eighteenth century as part of a project to build fifty new churches around London (the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne_Churches" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;" title="Queen Anne Churches">Queen Anne Churches</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">). The church was designed by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_(architect)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;" title="John James (architect)">John James</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">; its site was donated by General </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Steuart_(Scottish_soldier)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;" title="William Steuart (Scottish soldier)">William Steuart</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">, who laid the first stone in 1721. The building is one small block south of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover_Square,_London" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hanover Square, London">Hanover Square</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">, near </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Circus" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;" title="Oxford Circus">Oxford Circus</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">. Because of its location, it has frequently been the venue for </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_society_(group)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;" title="High society (group)">society</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> weddings.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicVpUIxPcD2q-PV4JXuZJ1vf-zumxo7snhPVIJ2qXG54qPpXxiwwzqy_i5a7_2IJafXGzLKNvoGdJqIiQDpGiy-DwSvc9Ad1q3OtUR3wG-2bg3pgu_fyLBMS3RoV2iCWUeDRJ9i9e-huA/s1512/St+Georges%252C+hanover+013.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="1023" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicVpUIxPcD2q-PV4JXuZJ1vf-zumxo7snhPVIJ2qXG54qPpXxiwwzqy_i5a7_2IJafXGzLKNvoGdJqIiQDpGiy-DwSvc9Ad1q3OtUR3wG-2bg3pgu_fyLBMS3RoV2iCWUeDRJ9i9e-huA/s320/St+Georges%252C+hanover+013.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Front Altar</span></div></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">"A civil parish of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George_Hanover_Square" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;" title="St George Hanover Square">St George Hanover</a> Sq</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George_Hanover_Square" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;" title="St George Hanover Square">uare</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> and an </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_parish" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ecclesiastical parish">ecclesiastical parish</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> were created in 1724 from part of the ancient parish of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Martin_in_the_Fields_(parish)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;" title="St Martin in the Fields (parish)">St Martin in the Fields</a></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU4OuCFpiJe__05yUcF3Qc9qXSnsUKwfE5fUxpWXZttEw4bxjWxgA2jDig5C3kY4pnP76RlyF0qjwH0oun7xQd2yqMLA6MU3C0F48wgLS3IlB51dpeV_bmM-ZDmyTZEChU4diJI7c18po/s2027/St+Georges%252C+hanover+011.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2027" data-original-width="1352" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU4OuCFpiJe__05yUcF3Qc9qXSnsUKwfE5fUxpWXZttEw4bxjWxgA2jDig5C3kY4pnP76RlyF0qjwH0oun7xQd2yqMLA6MU3C0F48wgLS3IlB51dpeV_bmM-ZDmyTZEChU4diJI7c18po/s320/St+Georges%252C+hanover+011.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Side Aisle</b></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"The land for the church was donated by General Sir William Steuart.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George%27s,_Hanover_Square#cite_note-2" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup> The church was constructed in 1721–25, funded by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_for_Building_Fifty_New_Churches" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Commission for Building Fifty New Churches">Commission for Building Fifty New Churches</a>, and designed by John James,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-westminster_3-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George%27s,_Hanover_Square#cite_note-westminster-3" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup> who had been one of the two surveyors to the commission since 1716.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-downes_4-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George%27s,_Hanover_Square#cite_note-downes-4" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></sup> Its portico, supported by six Corinthian columns, projects across the pavement. There is a tower just behind the portico, rising from the roof above the west end of the nave.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-westminster_3-1" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George%27s,_Hanover_Square#cite_note-westminster-3" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The interior is divided into nave and aisles by piers, square up to the height of the galleries, then rising to the ceiling in the form of Corinthian columns. The nave has a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_vault" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Barrel vault">barrel vault</a>, and the aisles transverse barrel vaults.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipC4f1GZr5RMi3a_DFfFRvAWOLhoTiJSLrC2eJ6QztzAqaEExfIwBI8b_70Fuf9Luuj5dGTwlq3ZKUWUtt9Rp3KEge5VV6d0ckpXEPyGSL2qikZGFJXNEHyeL6L-VC_FEbOyXOu22Mh5s/s1751/St+Georges%252C+hanover+016.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1751" data-original-width="1168" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipC4f1GZr5RMi3a_DFfFRvAWOLhoTiJSLrC2eJ6QztzAqaEExfIwBI8b_70Fuf9Luuj5dGTwlq3ZKUWUtt9Rp3KEge5VV6d0ckpXEPyGSL2qikZGFJXNEHyeL6L-VC_FEbOyXOu22Mh5s/s320/St+Georges%252C+hanover+016.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Side Altar</b></div><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>" <span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">From its early days, the church was a fashionable place for wedding." (Link)</span></b></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">*******************</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Photos: Taken in November 2020 by Richard Wilson while living and working in London, England.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Link-</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George%27s,_Hanover_Square</span></span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">,</span></b></span></p><p><br /></p><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="text-align: center;"> <u>Prayer</u></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-8897512868882605972020-11-29T09:22:00.001-08:002020-11-29T09:22:02.008-08:00<p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipdiqxTHhAGK34vgz1E4ayfw9Xt7Gud7dGDYPJTLgU5r6NL7BGbTau18dJ7ytbz6CgLezEUgawckjNvSzBK9eLYL5pD9abwJM14vOT-6s4hy7Pwu2Qrh7q9df-hx-ZdS649zrhDjsa3Ls/s1629/knightsbridge+church+004.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1629" data-original-width="1086" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipdiqxTHhAGK34vgz1E4ayfw9Xt7Gud7dGDYPJTLgU5r6NL7BGbTau18dJ7ytbz6CgLezEUgawckjNvSzBK9eLYL5pD9abwJM14vOT-6s4hy7Pwu2Qrh7q9df-hx-ZdS649zrhDjsa3Ls/s320/knightsbridge+church+004.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>32 Wilton Place, Knightsbridge, London</b></span></div><b style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></span><p></p><p><b style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, KNIGHTSBRIDGE</b></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>KNIGHTSBRIDGE, lONDON</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_mHZgYK8QPed5Ji-Hi1jvVi8LOkho37dmu5nSK3IgBWL965Ecp9KZNDLmo0AiuyP8cvcslwY96Fa2pqX-4a9ylLxHlA7T7y78LOaTPBMd1vB8TFLGMnt-CXFNtSKwzUpJBs6brCCc3ZQ/s1671/knightsbridge+church+001.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1671" data-original-width="1114" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_mHZgYK8QPed5Ji-Hi1jvVi8LOkho37dmu5nSK3IgBWL965Ecp9KZNDLmo0AiuyP8cvcslwY96Fa2pqX-4a9ylLxHlA7T7y78LOaTPBMd1vB8TFLGMnt-CXFNtSKwzUpJBs6brCCc3ZQ/s320/knightsbridge+church+001.JPG" /></a></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Side Windows</b></span></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"The church was founded in 1843, the first in London to champion the ideals of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Movement" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Oxford Movement">Oxford Movement</a>, during the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incumbency" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Incumbency">incumbency</a> of the Reverend <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._J._E._Bennett" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="W. J. E. Bennett">W. J. E. Bennett</a>. The architect was <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cundy_the_younger" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Thomas Cundy the younger">Thomas Cundy the younger</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Church,_Knightsbridge#cite_note-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>:American heiress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Randolph_Churchill" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Lady Randolph Churchill">Jennie Churchill</a> married British aristocrat <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cornwallis-West" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="George Cornwallis-West">George Cornwallis-West</a> in this church.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tomarry364_3-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Church,_Knightsbridge#cite_note-tomarry364-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Basil_Orme_Wilberforce" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Albert Basil Orme Wilberforce">Albert Basil Orme Wilberforce</a> married his wife, Charlotte Langford, here in 1865.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Church,_Knightsbridge#cite_note-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></sup></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"A memorial in St Paul's Church commemorates 52 members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Aid_Nursing_Yeomanry" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="First Aid Nursing Yeomanry">First Aid Nursing Yeomanry</a> who died on active service in World War II, carrying out secret intelligence work for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Special Operations Executive">Special Operations Executive</a> in occupied countries as well as providing transport drivers for the ATS. It includes three holders of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cross" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="George Cross">George Cross</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-stephen-stratford_5-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Church,_Knightsbridge#cite_note-stephen-stratford-5" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a></sup></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"St Paul's sister-parish is the Church of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul%27s,_K_street" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="St. Paul's, K street">St. Paul's, K street</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, DC</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="United States">United States</a>.</b></span></p><h2 style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdq3KbV7OAQmdRu1V6_DJTgjsDWWMkG-z9uJz6D0gs2oiCUKHiHnr2Kuti3SSLpoUcdVtfnWUx4LNhX01khSrqwERhKDfkfnSf21RhZwT83VihLamgnKU3onoe4RTAtgIuwDdqehY3nJc/s1593/knightsbridge+church+003.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1593" data-original-width="1062" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdq3KbV7OAQmdRu1V6_DJTgjsDWWMkG-z9uJz6D0gs2oiCUKHiHnr2Kuti3SSLpoUcdVtfnWUx4LNhX01khSrqwERhKDfkfnSf21RhZwT83VihLamgnKU3onoe4RTAtgIuwDdqehY3nJc/s320/knightsbridge+church+003.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Center Aisle</span></div><span style="font-family: Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">]</span></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"After the building's consecration in 1843 the chancel with its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rood_screen" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Rood screen">rood screen</a> and striking <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reredos" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Reredos">reredos</a> was added in 1892 by the noted church architect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frederick_Bodley" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="George Frederick Bodley">George Frederick Bodley</a> who also decorated St Luke's Chapel, which stands in the place of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_chapel" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Lady chapel">Lady Chapel</a> to the south of the sanctuary; the Lady Chapel of St Paul's having been traditionally seen as being the church of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s,_Bourne_Street" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="St Mary's, Bourne Street">St Mary's, Bourne Street</a>.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"The tiled panels around the walls of the nave, created in the 1870s by Daniel Bell, depict scenes from the life of Jesus Christ. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stations_of_the_Cross" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Stations of the Cross">Stations of the Cross</a> that intersperse the tiled panels, painted in the early 1920s by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Moira" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Gerald Moira">Gerald Moira</a>, show scenes from the Crucifixion story. The font dates from 1842 and is carved with biblical scenes from both the Old and New Testaments. There are statues of the Virgin and Child (1896) above the entrance to the Chapel, and of St Paul (1902) above the lectern.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Church,_Knightsbridge#cite_note-6" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a>"(Link)</sup></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqfNXY43ZzBP9h3RyKUN-13-iyVAWnay7aizU5l-2Mw3QnnvUo1AjL-6RC3RdUuifAiGUBsLY7w_5IMsPVTljJ2lz5yZOWXQjFbS83WjTZ-nzc39-xxliqOt9rmepuTyy2OgIvpMHROVs/s1488/knightsbridge+church+005.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1488" data-original-width="992" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqfNXY43ZzBP9h3RyKUN-13-iyVAWnay7aizU5l-2Mw3QnnvUo1AjL-6RC3RdUuifAiGUBsLY7w_5IMsPVTljJ2lz5yZOWXQjFbS83WjTZ-nzc39-xxliqOt9rmepuTyy2OgIvpMHROVs/s320/knightsbridge+church+005.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Baptismal Font</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>*********</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Photos: Taken in November 2020 by Richard Wilson while living and </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> working in London, England.</b></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Church,_Knightsbridge</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><br /></p><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="text-align: center;"> <u>Prayer</u></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div></div>Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-27078715153317338242020-11-22T12:48:00.002-08:002020-11-27T10:53:55.350-08:00<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" dir="rtl" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjjV7wdEoDa3Xnlz9RdcNpCge9AeWxFlqHBzlA89h_MUoPTNy7frmUGeQLk-OrImd6PoSueSIqTD9rovf73MEV9j9ty_YcGr4YKhUVtPIpLC6tn6h1lfV2pFzWJdMr2asDa-3xppNMq90/s1748/brides+001.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1748" data-original-width="1182" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjjV7wdEoDa3Xnlz9RdcNpCge9AeWxFlqHBzlA89h_MUoPTNy7frmUGeQLk-OrImd6PoSueSIqTD9rovf73MEV9j9ty_YcGr4YKhUVtPIpLC6tn6h1lfV2pFzWJdMr2asDa-3xppNMq90/s320/brides+001.JPG" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">St. Bride's Church,Door</span></b></span><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>ST. BRIDE'S CHURCH</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>FLEET STREET</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>CITY OF LONDON, ENGLAND</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;"> </b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFfEUp_N3B9RPVGk2LTexnwn8aaCSvGEK8CTTqc360Wc7Es3-eYDPj-VK217Vp9ay-ov9sZImS0pO48BVw3eH4CvWedBvguYL8uDxPVnwa_jvZQbYOxTv0z-R9aNm-dSHISnaGs5o0V3Y/s1637/st+brides+006.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1637" data-original-width="1092" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFfEUp_N3B9RPVGk2LTexnwn8aaCSvGEK8CTTqc360Wc7Es3-eYDPj-VK217Vp9ay-ov9sZImS0pO48BVw3eH4CvWedBvguYL8uDxPVnwa_jvZQbYOxTv0z-R9aNm-dSHISnaGs5o0V3Y/s320/st+brides+006.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> Sanctuary, Center Aisle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></b></span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.625em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"HE CHURCH of St Bride's is justly world famous. To enter its doors is to step into 2,000 years of history, which had begun with the Romans some six centuries before the name of St Bride, daughter of an Irish prince, even emerged from legend to become associated forever with the site.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.625em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNwgdHBfXjGvUyb0IGADXE3NiXeTmFyVxnZ0_PEAl-EpSPIwSPGkZcHdzzE0fIpPPCx_bl3H2bJEslWf6tyB0dWaW9hV9LDTNhVjfnC0L2BFaxz0XHqvOV3LHTe1YU3SAYhWgYCTNRbPk/s1391/St+Brides+004.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="1391" data-original-width="928" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNwgdHBfXjGvUyb0IGADXE3NiXeTmFyVxnZ0_PEAl-EpSPIwSPGkZcHdzzE0fIpPPCx_bl3H2bJEslWf6tyB0dWaW9hV9LDTNhVjfnC0L2BFaxz0XHqvOV3LHTe1YU3SAYhWgYCTNRbPk/s320/St+Brides+004.JPG" /></a></div></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Baptismal Font</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div></span><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.625em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"The story of St Bride's is inextricably woven into the history of the City of London. By the time the Great Fire of 1666 left the church in ruins, a succession of churches had existed on the site for about a millennium, and the area had already assumed its unique role in the emergence of English printing. It took nine years for St Bride's to re-appear from the ashes under the inspired direction of Christopher Wren, but for the next two-and-a-half centuries it was in the shadow of the church's unmistakeable wedding-cake spire that the rise of the British newspaper industry into the immensely-powerful Fourth Estate took place.</b></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.625em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx8RN3z22XLdXMbTDjNtfXn8tlm1lRBmPW5it9WjbhAVnrDdcUNvHEfAPevc5cjQk-fC4QNfxkYJMSQjkwKvvzDqofPJhrJSCFjEnQv224_xiwME8z8VPvfQjyImJm4RyQMh9bbOaj1g8/s1587/St+Brides+002.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1587" data-original-width="1058" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx8RN3z22XLdXMbTDjNtfXn8tlm1lRBmPW5it9WjbhAVnrDdcUNvHEfAPevc5cjQk-fC4QNfxkYJMSQjkwKvvzDqofPJhrJSCFjEnQv224_xiwME8z8VPvfQjyImJm4RyQMh9bbOaj1g8/s320/St+Brides+002.JPG" /></a></div><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Side Pews</b></div></span></blockquote><p> </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.625em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"Then, in 1940, St Bride's fell victim once again to flames as German incendiary bombs reduced Wren's architectural jewel to a roofless shell. This time 17 years elapsed before rebuilding was completed, although a series of important excavations in 1953 amid the skeletal ruins, led by the medieval archaeologist Professor W. F. Grimes, came up with extraordinary results, uncovering the foundations of all six previous churches on the site.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.625em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0LHOhr_Qzc-Qms8bJKRLcfSyZvBm6VW3seCF7oojCYNwibt8I4tyH01-_1cRLaayLkzI-JN1gmJ_JThef1gaOCzNnTpR4yYLrWcEp93wQ3WG5AanWufb4MhviO-tJf5nyLb1vJxuRjdY/s1624/St+Brides+003.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1624" data-original-width="1083" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0LHOhr_Qzc-Qms8bJKRLcfSyZvBm6VW3seCF7oojCYNwibt8I4tyH01-_1cRLaayLkzI-JN1gmJ_JThef1gaOCzNnTpR4yYLrWcEp93wQ3WG5AanWufb4MhviO-tJf5nyLb1vJxuRjdY/s320/St+Brides+003.JPG" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Interior</span></div></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.625em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"Not only the nation, but the Chr</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">istian world as a whole, was fascinated by the discovery."(Link)</b><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.625em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> ************</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.625em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Photos-Taken in November 2020 by Richard Wilson while living and working in the UK on an ancestor's visa</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.625em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>LINK-</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>http://stbrides.com/history/index.html</b></span></span></span></p><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="text-align: center;"> <u>Prayer</u></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.625em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div></div><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p>Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-43997733582305259022020-09-09T16:05:00.001-07:002020-09-09T16:05:16.643-07:00<p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLCjJypfvSG0ynUmXmbT0GbtWnFREjRWisL0Ss9FLAcQyDMkFZ8VnYgAhUZwQR-ibT5WiVnAvWVPQt8X6P0_tUY4LdV1fxwMdnnYFSO4cOoU85J7gxVPiraY-pELTlGxDRbU8alREv8TI/s1568/St.+John%2527s+002.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1568" data-original-width="1046" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLCjJypfvSG0ynUmXmbT0GbtWnFREjRWisL0Ss9FLAcQyDMkFZ8VnYgAhUZwQR-ibT5WiVnAvWVPQt8X6P0_tUY4LdV1fxwMdnnYFSO4cOoU85J7gxVPiraY-pELTlGxDRbU8alREv8TI/s320/St.+John%2527s+002.JPG" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> St. John's Church</span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> Hyde Park Crescent</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> Tybernia, London</span></b></span></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">St. John's Church</span></b></p><p><b style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">London, England</b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span color="rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7)" face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;"><b> "...</b></span><span color="rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7)" face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;"><b>Charles Fowler (1792 - 1867) .... dr(e)w up ... plans which he did expeditiously by 1829. Fowler was a founder-member of the Institute of British Architect</b>s. </span><b><span color="rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7)" face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;">His plan for St John’s -- a 13th Century style Gothic church --</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0M1sgoq7-wtNf0A2j6YrK-bXY-Mb7Ry3Zney7k4dL3kfTuWSp6hxxR5iEZB2BkZ1J1SaqYHaYYbQrkJK3FdmjhfR9lbz0xITImvZJM_F36_0t3rIZL-JChrOz3DIipu8nuO5SIyrKwvA/s1770/St.+John%2527s+003.JPG" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1770" data-original-width="1252" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0M1sgoq7-wtNf0A2j6YrK-bXY-Mb7Ry3Zney7k4dL3kfTuWSp6hxxR5iEZB2BkZ1J1SaqYHaYYbQrkJK3FdmjhfR9lbz0xITImvZJM_F36_0t3rIZL-JChrOz3DIipu8nuO5SIyrKwvA/s320/St.+John%2527s+003.JPG" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>St.John's Church</b></span></p><p><span color="rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7)" face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> "It took three years to build and on the 26th January 1832 the Lord Bishop of London, the Right Reverend and Right Honourable Dr Charles James Blomfield, consecrated St John’s Chapel, also known as the Connaught Chapel. It was designed to seat 1500, with 700 free seats and the rest rented – the pews in all churches used to be rented for annual charges. The total pew rentals in St John’s, which were paid to the wardens to cover expenses, were valued at £681 a year.</span></b></span></p><p><span color="rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7)" face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> "The church as we know it today is not the one we would have seen in 1832 or even at the turn of the 20th Century. The interior was darker; it was lit with candles, then gas lamps, and finally electric lighting in the late 1800s. There was a triforium, or balcony over each of the side aisles as well as over the entrance. Between the wooden pews, there was a row of paired chairs going down the nave leading up to the chancel. St John’s had a capacity of 2,200 people with 1,500 subscription seats and 700 free seats in the triforium. The pulpit, with its spiral staircase, was in front of the left row of pews attached to the rood screen, now at the entrance of the church. The baptismal font was located at the northwest corner. The high altar, from St Michael’s Star Street was originally in the north transept in front of the organ, which was The Lady Chapel until the reordering in 2011. </span></b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span color="rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7)" face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;">"</span><span color="rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7)" face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;">In 2011 the old Victorian heating system was replaced and the pine pews (which came from America) were sold or auctioned off to raise funds for the beautiful new floor. The rood screen was relocated to the area behind the seating to create a narthex. Additional changes include the installation of toilets on the south side of the porch, while a much-needed kitchen was re-fitted on the north side.</span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis-18dtL4_q_OljkKwSpoXrwq9ob_5ezJU4lxw00MggKwpcjNGu8qoyji20_-w3nysFmsxLqAyKZLwVAszk9kwzi6yHhmau-sYByJrnAH4mNtZnJabQZq_KBaHcrQpye89ZsMdye62QBs/s1649/St.+John%2527s+001.JPG" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1649" data-original-width="1100" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis-18dtL4_q_OljkKwSpoXrwq9ob_5ezJU4lxw00MggKwpcjNGu8qoyji20_-w3nysFmsxLqAyKZLwVAszk9kwzi6yHhmau-sYByJrnAH4mNtZnJabQZq_KBaHcrQpye89ZsMdye62QBs/s320/St.+John%2527s+001.JPG" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">St. John's Parish Hall</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span color="rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7)" face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;">"</span><span color="rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7)" face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;">St John’s h</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span color="rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7)" face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;">as long had a str</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span color="rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7)" face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;">ong association with music in London. It employs eight choral scholars and an organ scholar per year, drawn from the best London conservatories." (Linc 2)</span></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span color="rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7)" face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;"><b> *****</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Photos: Taken in August 2020 by Lina while living and working in London England.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #3d85c6; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: black; text-align: left;">Linc 1: https://www.google.com/search?q=St.John%27s%20Church%2C%20London%20England</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: black; text-align: left;">Linc 2: </b><span style="text-align: left;"><b>https://www.stjohns-hydepark.com/moreaboutus/2016/7/21/history-of-st-johns-hyde-park</b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><b style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></b></span><p></p>Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-60146302033784926602020-04-08T16:18:00.000-07:002020-07-04T15:16:24.330-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgetN5IhFyjkm0fkKqEfof4rkg4l4PE1YinNcmXVU6vxdGlylL-MUJLHUR224YIVY4KFGx9M4eW87jcCi8THO-_FByPjeb2hlPIimRbPyY7BQGOZXZnxWwUP7Flo5a5OasCZE4hj8C2DHk/s1600/figures+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgetN5IhFyjkm0fkKqEfof4rkg4l4PE1YinNcmXVU6vxdGlylL-MUJLHUR224YIVY4KFGx9M4eW87jcCi8THO-_FByPjeb2hlPIimRbPyY7BQGOZXZnxWwUP7Flo5a5OasCZE4hj8C2DHk/s400/figures+3.JPG" width="300" /></a></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;">Esglesia de Sant Pere Church</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Catonia, Spain</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>2020</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>SUMMARY</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><u>England</u></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><u><br /></u></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">London- "</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><u>Westminster Cathedral</u>", 3/8/20.</b></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Stepney[</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">London Borough of Tower Hamlets</b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> Province of Canterbury-"</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><u>Parish Church of </u></b><br />
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"> <u> St. Dustan and All Saints</u>",</b><br />
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"> 2/2/20.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><u>Spain</u></b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"> </b><br />
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><br /></b></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Girona Catonia- "</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"> <u>Esglesia de Sant Pere Church</u> </b><br />
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"> <u>Figures</u>", 1/19/20.</b><br />
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Catonia, Province of Barcelona-"</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"> <u>Esglesia de Santa</u> </b><br />
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"> <u>Susanna</u>", 3/29/20.</b><br />
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><u><b>Italy</b></u></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Milan-" </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><u>San Fedele of Como Catholic Church</u>"<u>,</u></span></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> 2/6/20. </b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>***********</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
</div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-38249181758343849932020-03-29T06:00:00.001-07:002020-04-25T15:24:48.978-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiyQ-CaXqiDjfh77G7ITAL1yQO4riUZgvQWOD5X5w5eNNipBL1cTmBYA7tO-hnNrGp6ZAd1KC7F-sMvX2-vvs8gSYRk0PNGG4keaf9Zy-E955phOF_BRghYJlEWNb32YQCyPQldOnH7Vg/s1600/Susanna+-+Copy.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiyQ-CaXqiDjfh77G7ITAL1yQO4riUZgvQWOD5X5w5eNNipBL1cTmBYA7tO-hnNrGp6ZAd1KC7F-sMvX2-vvs8gSYRk0PNGG4keaf9Zy-E955phOF_BRghYJlEWNb32YQCyPQldOnH7Vg/s400/Susanna+-+Copy.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Esglesia de Santa Susanna</b></span></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Esglesia de Santa Susanna</b></span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Catonia, Province of Barcelona, Spain</b></span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Santa Susanna is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipality" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Municipality">municipality</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comarques_of_Catalonia" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Comarques of Catalonia"><i>comarca</i></a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maresme" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Maresme">Maresme</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Catalonia">Catalonia</a>, Spain. It is situated on the coast between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malgrat_de_Mar" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Malgrat de Mar">Malgrat de Mar</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineda_de_Mar" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Pineda de Mar">Pineda de Mar</a>. The main N-II road runs through the town.</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"There is a train link direct from Sants station in Barcelona." (Link 2.)</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYNx3P6jAb-80PR1-uoZUd4xwmL8s2u8V0OR8r2PH-BdwbuZcOfdYOEk_8QgvNvB18FUi1bQh3xcbzXB3CjZSPz6FKMtYmB-JK_ZxwjSjAY-1PqoKD3fZzyCfWOa7PUsNGfLNPk9sQcOU/s1600/Santa+Susanna+5.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1011" data-original-width="1600" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYNx3P6jAb-80PR1-uoZUd4xwmL8s2u8V0OR8r2PH-BdwbuZcOfdYOEk_8QgvNvB18FUi1bQh3xcbzXB3CjZSPz6FKMtYmB-JK_ZxwjSjAY-1PqoKD3fZzyCfWOa7PUsNGfLNPk9sQcOU/s400/Santa+Susanna+5.JPG" width="400" /></a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Town Plaque</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: black; vertical-align: inherit;">"On December 6th, 7th and 8th, (2018)Santa Susanna hosted the oldest equestrian race of resistance in Europe. </span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: inherit;">The 65th edition of the International Raid Barcelona-Santa Susanna (the last big test of the raid calendar) brought together 156 binomials (rider / horse) from 16 different nationalities." (Liink 3.)</span></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><b></b></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC9TtEejwyd-D-3Z7ipiKi6gHDls6cBoqUxY-86sb5TjvBM_ksOzkv7t_DXEmwQCCnMx2S4clqlhpEEFAl9N8tE8LrghUovAf3CYTHBbHC0056n5zZSLldVGkVRZz_hBKXy0twjGeIFe4/s1600/Santa+Susanna+7.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC9TtEejwyd-D-3Z7ipiKi6gHDls6cBoqUxY-86sb5TjvBM_ksOzkv7t_DXEmwQCCnMx2S4clqlhpEEFAl9N8tE8LrghUovAf3CYTHBbHC0056n5zZSLldVGkVRZz_hBKXy0twjGeIFe4/s400/Santa+Susanna+7.JPG" width="300" /></a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>ChurchEntrance</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><b></b></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTAqK6qjERdMMwRjUXCXXoJAlScnXrD2gUjWMFMBYWhV6FeB14Oncw4gnJZE4_c7_Mf_QofB7GZl0r4Pywf6ei5mvFQKNapMgaibjXCpjiwZeFMbbPXtetpqP7lLJMCbqP0nrViQ_nyhw/s1600/Santa+Susanna+6.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTAqK6qjERdMMwRjUXCXXoJAlScnXrD2gUjWMFMBYWhV6FeB14Oncw4gnJZE4_c7_Mf_QofB7GZl0r4Pywf6ei5mvFQKNapMgaibjXCpjiwZeFMbbPXtetpqP7lLJMCbqP0nrViQ_nyhw/s400/Santa+Susanna+6.JPG" width="300" /></a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Church Entrance, Rose Window & Tower</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF1YDlWFIWLCtXIekMB3lAoxttkTHwy8eO4ZpnwqQB9KxC2bWC_ZE4zU2K7t-EutpysLRpn8CEV5ZeEuHNLLgihMY5o-8zmwryOdWywFzbFV6onNeJW9T6k4xzmcJDLGVlmh8ePDyh8wI/s1600/Santa+Suzanna+4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF1YDlWFIWLCtXIekMB3lAoxttkTHwy8eO4ZpnwqQB9KxC2bWC_ZE4zU2K7t-EutpysLRpn8CEV5ZeEuHNLLgihMY5o-8zmwryOdWywFzbFV6onNeJW9T6k4xzmcJDLGVlmh8ePDyh8wI/s400/Santa+Suzanna+4.JPG" width="300" /></a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Interior/ Sanctuary</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqGOmrlkzdml4jildP-PZuA5_v6nDQja_ucKaGVZvcj80waueITA6WMcMGijhmyvjOiK38zXYXE7tdKn4YoYD2shnD7jQiFwKD-BIgSnSAaSXJDnEizwff-JJyCrJAd3u0Fe_cV-hxetQ/s1600/Santa+Susanna+3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqGOmrlkzdml4jildP-PZuA5_v6nDQja_ucKaGVZvcj80waueITA6WMcMGijhmyvjOiK38zXYXE7tdKn4YoYD2shnD7jQiFwKD-BIgSnSAaSXJDnEizwff-JJyCrJAd3u0Fe_cV-hxetQ/s400/Santa+Susanna+3.JPG" width="300" /></a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Altar & Ceiling Detail</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXMQvYodJGYlmigljeYOwru_J0fglUiSwJzZFl7oCEqyZ5SlDpO4hx1auD0qh469nrIekqyVj5kyynpkGsb6_oybOswUcxsFUsdicMnuVGEkVms1xgbxv1uYrPicKKg2ArghQ03UssVqw/s1600/Santa+susanna.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXMQvYodJGYlmigljeYOwru_J0fglUiSwJzZFl7oCEqyZ5SlDpO4hx1auD0qh469nrIekqyVj5kyynpkGsb6_oybOswUcxsFUsdicMnuVGEkVms1xgbxv1uYrPicKKg2ArghQ03UssVqw/s400/Santa+susanna.JPG" width="300" /></a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Side Altar</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><b></b></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS34LEji9VPcjutCugakW3gzdrgrq_p6Aef4kdRadw2TPSPHEmkRR2rabmHFvZVDGhsWBcJvXBzPrgD1FfLWKhj8r5WOWB_EjWvTxHbaW7BkrJpNKb6WnEdk0ANoE61ABhK9shQcWct80/s1600/Santa+Susanna+4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS34LEji9VPcjutCugakW3gzdrgrq_p6Aef4kdRadw2TPSPHEmkRR2rabmHFvZVDGhsWBcJvXBzPrgD1FfLWKhj8r5WOWB_EjWvTxHbaW7BkrJpNKb6WnEdk0ANoE61ABhK9shQcWct80/s400/Santa+Susanna+4.JPG" width="300" /></a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Crucifix/Side Altar</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsYX-rLfNX-urPqeCqudWPcyJ3BEe_wjjhVp7N71_2qJOSct1l_x0HUOZgV4w6tOxi9u4ZmFJTAX0qWfDCo6huGU3Wax2dssqGnfDypWimkmKuzGrjB0EtxUb_KIjuyZVdEhS2mPv2HfI/s1600/Santa+Suzanna+2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1421" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsYX-rLfNX-urPqeCqudWPcyJ3BEe_wjjhVp7N71_2qJOSct1l_x0HUOZgV4w6tOxi9u4ZmFJTAX0qWfDCo6huGU3Wax2dssqGnfDypWimkmKuzGrjB0EtxUb_KIjuyZVdEhS2mPv2HfI/s400/Santa+Suzanna+2.JPG" width="355" /></a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Side Altar</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>******</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Photos: Taken in 2018 by RW with his iPhone while travelling in</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Spain from his home in Switzerland.</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 1: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1KYPB_enCA770CA770&q=Inglasia+Malgrat+de+Mar&npsic=0&rflfq=">https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1KYPB_enCA770CA770&q=Inglasia+Malgrat+de+Mar&npsic=0&rflfq=</a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 2: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susanna,_Catalonia">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susanna,_Catalonia</a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 3: <a href="http://www.stasusanna.cat/">http://www.stasusanna.cat/</a></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="text-align: center;"> <u>Prayer</u></b></span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-65444688942340522142020-03-08T06:00:00.000-07:002020-04-25T15:23:43.062-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4nzJcxVvWAf73X7GQhzgEy2f_cAvIQMTdFL8DGvisbyEDgAJgz_tbN1QjMjmQfQwxrR114NoU87AQWktfzC6HDTMkvP9bspJ0sa0BqSycMc50XG_OkNpwbMq4lo110tr5tKrMN1fVCLY/s1600/Westminster+Cath1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1159" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4nzJcxVvWAf73X7GQhzgEy2f_cAvIQMTdFL8DGvisbyEDgAJgz_tbN1QjMjmQfQwxrR114NoU87AQWktfzC6HDTMkvP9bspJ0sa0BqSycMc50XG_OkNpwbMq4lo110tr5tKrMN1fVCLY/s400/Westminster+Cath1.JPG" width="288" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Westminster Cathedral</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Westminster Cathedral</b></span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>London, England</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS9fk1SQ-pEbwqnepC9EaNj46O-bZ3aG5jwvSY1zifsnyTOBEZaxZch1cY9iFLkXKDqtZD6wePgntLMy0ofy38-a_Jl86JRJjBpZMiJx3_G2iTTwREnVEs6FiUyYi-78mP_3mQoVENxAo/s1600/Westminster+Cath.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1445" data-original-width="1600" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS9fk1SQ-pEbwqnepC9EaNj46O-bZ3aG5jwvSY1zifsnyTOBEZaxZch1cY9iFLkXKDqtZD6wePgntLMy0ofy38-a_Jl86JRJjBpZMiJx3_G2iTTwREnVEs6FiUyYi-78mP_3mQoVENxAo/s320/Westminster+Cath.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Exterior Sign</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Westminster Cathedral, or the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in London is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_church" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mother church">mother church</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_England_and_Wales" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Catholic Church in England and Wales">Catholic Church in England and Wales</a>.</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The site on which the cathedral stands in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Westminster" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="City of Westminster">City of Westminster</a> was purchased by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Westminster" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster">Diocese of Westminster</a> in 1885.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sacred-destinations_2-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Cathedral#cite_note-sacred-destinations-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup> Westminster Cathedral is the largest Catholic church building in England and Wales and the seat of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_of_Westminster" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Archbishop of Westminster">Archbishop of Westminster</a>.</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjeman" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="John Betjeman">John Betjeman</a> called it "a masterpiece in striped brick and stone in an intricate pattern of bonding, the domes being all-brick in order to prove that the good craftsman has no need of steel or concrete.</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMmp_IFsydOebSr_lTp_T5kTZbb6uHzN8ZGcdmFlaP-gsGqfgfJVLMeKHkkdhPZ10DCUB97qkVs0PfPnkd2gH5gZVKs5x87oBgiv3QTkwbwIe5M4cWcQiGkhyphenhyphenjmjnWfhuIAtM3TN4aLDc/s1600/Westminster+Cath+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1305" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMmp_IFsydOebSr_lTp_T5kTZbb6uHzN8ZGcdmFlaP-gsGqfgfJVLMeKHkkdhPZ10DCUB97qkVs0PfPnkd2gH5gZVKs5x87oBgiv3QTkwbwIe5M4cWcQiGkhyphenhyphenjmjnWfhuIAtM3TN4aLDc/s320/Westminster+Cath+2.JPG" width="260" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Sanctuary</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"The whole building, in the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Byzantine_architecture" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Neo-Byzantine architecture">neo-Byzantine</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> style, covers a floor area of about 5,017 square metres (54,000 sq ft); the dominating factor of the scheme, apart from the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campanile" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Campanile">campanile</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, being a spacious and uninterrupted </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nave" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Nave">nave</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, 18 metres (59 ft) wide and 70 metres (230 ft) long from the narthex to the sanctuary steps,</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Cathedral#cite_note-9" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[9]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">covered with </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domical_vault" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Domical vault">domical vaulting</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>"The main structural parts of the building are of brick and concrete,</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"The central feature of the decoration in the cathedral is the baldacchino over the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altar" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Altar">high altar</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. This is one of the largest structures of its kind, the total width being 9.5 metres (31 ft), and the height 11.5 metres (38 ft). The upper part of white marble is richly inlaid with coloured marbles, lapis lazuli, pearl, and gold. Eight columns of yellow marble, from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verona" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Verona">Verona</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, support the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldacchino" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Baldacchino">baldacchino</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> over the high altar, and others, white and pink, from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Norway">Norway</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, support the organ galleries." (Link.)</span></b></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">********</span></b></span></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;">Photos: Taken by RW in Oct. 2018 with Iphone while travelling in London.</b></span><b style="color: black; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"> </b></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link : <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Cathedral">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Cathedral</a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> <u>Prayer</u></b><br />
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"><u><br /></u></b>
<br />
<div style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
</div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-65594852974380758532020-02-16T06:00:00.000-08:002020-04-25T15:32:19.457-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQa7JJaMLXeaof8ifHOKv28lYmh7oD4C2hDnv_06W9TtAjkxemzBBiYgLQUdOEGYlwWnlvP2ckTq6338H-0fYEqX8l0WDNTG1NFM0W6G4vut0Pb3zqgrMu4ZBPnkwpbCJGYmUGR1kVi28/s1600/milano+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1354" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQa7JJaMLXeaof8ifHOKv28lYmh7oD4C2hDnv_06W9TtAjkxemzBBiYgLQUdOEGYlwWnlvP2ckTq6338H-0fYEqX8l0WDNTG1NFM0W6G4vut0Pb3zqgrMu4ZBPnkwpbCJGYmUGR1kVi28/s400/milano+003.JPG" width="337" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>San Fedele of Como</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>San Fedele of Como Catholic Church</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Milan, Italy</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYIj6aGfPrH_oE9-gGlLopjrbjyLMuWbDNquWRa1wxegA-mdwTY1VVgqzoxdztiMgSoaKFxW3uGF4PEs8D3hjB3zfOqaAOQoFGUkwSVMWJvvfhS6gNjdSgdTLj2En1wsveOoiJL90wV1c/s1600/milano+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="896" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYIj6aGfPrH_oE9-gGlLopjrbjyLMuWbDNquWRa1wxegA-mdwTY1VVgqzoxdztiMgSoaKFxW3uGF4PEs8D3hjB3zfOqaAOQoFGUkwSVMWJvvfhS6gNjdSgdTLj2En1wsveOoiJL90wV1c/s400/milano+002.JPG" width="223" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Church Plaque</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"San Fedele is a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jesuit">Jesuit</a> church in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Milan">Milan</a>, northern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Italy">Italy</a>. It is entitled to <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Fidelis_of_Como" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="St. Fidelis of Como">St. Fidelis of Como</a>, patron of the Catholic <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese_of_Como" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Diocese of Como">diocese of Como</a>.</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Located in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_San_Fedele" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Piazza San Fedele">Saint Fedele Square</a> in the centre of the city, near the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Marino" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Palazzo Marino">Palazzo Marino</a>, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teatro_alla_Scala" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Teatro alla Scala">Teatro alla Scala</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galleria_Vittorio_Emanuele_II" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II">Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II</a>, the church was commissioned by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Borromeo" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Charles Borromeo">Charles Borromeo</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellegrino_Tibaldi" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pellegrino Tibaldi">Pellegrino Tibaldi</a> (1559).</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"The interior is on a single nave, with tall columns in granite. The presbytery was prolonged in the 17th century by <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Maria_Richino" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Francesco Maria Richino">Francesco Maria Richino</a>, who also designed the notable sacristy. The façade was completed by Pietro Pestagalli from Tibaldi's designs in 1835. It features a group of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Matteo_Monti" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Gaetano Matteo Monti">Gaetano Matteo Monti</a>'s statues representing the Assumption.</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"The interior is decorated with artworks that include a <i>Pietà</i> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Peterzano" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Simone Peterzano">Simone Peterzano</a>, a <i>St. Ignatius</i> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Crespi" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Giovanni Battista Crespi">Giovanni Battista Crespi</a> (il Cerano) a <i>Transfiguration</i> by Bernardino Campi, and a "Sacred Heart" by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Fontana" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Lucio Fontana">Lucio Fontana</a>. A <i>Madonna of the Snake</i> by <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrogio_Figino" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ambrogio Figino">Ambrogio Figino</a>, once found in the church, is now in the church of Sant'Antonio Abate of the city. " (Link.)</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUym98vpQ5dpsMtKNCIpFgK8TGvWjDj7R5HK7OfD1nKcZ4llFrBl1s48i5Swtd9B5cerqv4d2UjQ8VHgt99n5Dog-GfTXKudnIHQStK_TkxA8mBSOuICGAgSYQqMHsjyyWvA1IlseFZuo/s1600/milano+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1405" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUym98vpQ5dpsMtKNCIpFgK8TGvWjDj7R5HK7OfD1nKcZ4llFrBl1s48i5Swtd9B5cerqv4d2UjQ8VHgt99n5Dog-GfTXKudnIHQStK_TkxA8mBSOuICGAgSYQqMHsjyyWvA1IlseFZuo/s400/milano+006.JPG" width="350" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Nave</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIKdo6hEsbLNEjpnepKC23ehEEoYIMvUx80fh2a0Cg0r9RIFqQn5HBu2l07iv-t0YXkpN8jrOyw3CIMrK2Q8K0bD37XlUg6Xzcd1X1gFJN9_FEJGU9r-ABNXJKlmynqaAilU79mGMhNkE/s1600/milano+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="976" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIKdo6hEsbLNEjpnepKC23ehEEoYIMvUx80fh2a0Cg0r9RIFqQn5HBu2l07iv-t0YXkpN8jrOyw3CIMrK2Q8K0bD37XlUg6Xzcd1X1gFJN9_FEJGU9r-ABNXJKlmynqaAilU79mGMhNkE/s400/milano+005.JPG" width="243" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Altar featuring a Pieta</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>******</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Photos: Taken in March 2019 with an iPhone by RW while traveling to Milan from his home in</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Basel Switzerland.</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fedele_(Milan)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fedele_(Milan)</a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "times new roman";">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="text-align: center;"> <u>Prayer</u></b></span></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "times new roman";">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-33446655233024796682020-02-02T06:00:00.000-08:002020-04-25T15:37:29.321-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPhEagcC9rDY5EFm3Il5lULw9aAey1pJHEPO2MEgwlxFhSrSMMK32Il4fhWE749RMTN1HCp39eCmcUCy8gn2MWY5oGf3ZjLkofmeTfgKXu7RVw3Nkm0Khn1kqNv-ysXDTuTQ92LYsoyt4/s1600/Dustan+4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPhEagcC9rDY5EFm3Il5lULw9aAey1pJHEPO2MEgwlxFhSrSMMK32Il4fhWE749RMTN1HCp39eCmcUCy8gn2MWY5oGf3ZjLkofmeTfgKXu7RVw3Nkm0Khn1kqNv-ysXDTuTQ92LYsoyt4/s400/Dustan+4.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;">Parish Church of St. Dunstan and All Saints</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Parish Church of St. Dunstan and All Saints</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Stepney, London Borough of Tower Hamlets</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Province of Canterbury</b></span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDThsBrR5BazkdCEml5hXRIM6nJZ6xhCG1GF4-YzHgZMWUeuZWOj2t32flMjN5Zr-__vhhbvkA8DTF1hsTKjlXVGBRPDGCfobO385BvMYCCOB_RIMaR0X1s_Rbcsxd_CDIPmq_BIUmyLA/s1600/Dustan.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1204" data-original-width="1600" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDThsBrR5BazkdCEml5hXRIM6nJZ6xhCG1GF4-YzHgZMWUeuZWOj2t32flMjN5Zr-__vhhbvkA8DTF1hsTKjlXVGBRPDGCfobO385BvMYCCOB_RIMaR0X1s_Rbcsxd_CDIPmq_BIUmyLA/s400/Dustan.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Church Poster</b></span><br />
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"St Dunstan's, Stepney</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> is an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Church" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Anglican Church">Anglican Church</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> which stands on a site that has been used for </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Christianity">Christian</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> worship for over a thousand years. It is located in Stepney High Street, in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepney" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Stepney">Stepney</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Borough_of_Tower_Hamlets" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="London Borough of Tower Hamlets">London Borough of Tower Hamlets</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></b></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwbJ4_u3sUEN_lKaO0Md34Kpd416wGKVBk6mkNKUHanSi8l5cRmeg8lHanU0RQ1pB2ilFs2RH3Mk7g_cQjIpqzt4nczNWWDYNY3b5Cl9a1RBznFhGKIVok1SSllAVqrjBl9-KWSoC-iWA/s1600/Dustan+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1136" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwbJ4_u3sUEN_lKaO0Md34Kpd416wGKVBk6mkNKUHanSi8l5cRmeg8lHanU0RQ1pB2ilFs2RH3Mk7g_cQjIpqzt4nczNWWDYNY3b5Cl9a1RBznFhGKIVok1SSllAVqrjBl9-KWSoC-iWA/s400/Dustan+2.JPG" width="283" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Bell Tower</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"In about AD 952 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_of_London" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Bishop of London">Bishop of London</a> — who is also <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Manor" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Lord of the Manor">Lord of the Manor</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepney_(parish)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Stepney (parish)">Stepney</a> — replaced the existing wooden structure with a stone church dedicated to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Saint">All the Saints</a>. In 1029, when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunstan" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Dunstan">Dunstan</a> was canonised, the church was rededicated to St Dunstan and All Saints, a dedication it has retained.</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Up until the early fourteenth century the church served the whole of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Middlesex">Middlesex</a>east of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="City of London">City of London</a>. Then new churches were built at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Whitechapel">Whitechapel</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow,_London" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Bow, London">Bow</a>. The existing building is the third on the site and was built of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentish_ragstone" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kentish ragstone">Kentish ragstone</a> mainly in the fifteenth century (although the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancel" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Chancel">chancel</a> dates from 200 years earlier). A porch and octagonal parish room were added in 1872.</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"The church was restored extensively in 1899, at a cost of £5,600. The vestries and some of the main building were destroyed by fire on 12 October 1901, including the organ which had carvings by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinling_Gibbons" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Grinling Gibbons">Grinling Gibbons</a>. The restoration cost £7,084,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Moon_1-0" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Dunstan%27s,_Stepney#cite_note-Moon-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup> and the church was re-opened in June 1902 by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_of_Stepney" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Bishop of Stepney">Bishop of Stepney</a> (at that time <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmo_Gordon_Lang" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Cosmo Gordon Lang">Cosmo Gordon Lang</a>.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirTEemFTSysOLf0LkTZ9VwKNcNLH5nZbz4NqM9xJo4H6SDneywdKpVuL4Tx23SNiyQ0_O1HMyQDxO5_DFlvV_v47AJMEGqfNPHush86CqO35XZhKhZA66fn_pHgGFvumEdzPbyvOyMEgQ/s1600/Dustan1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirTEemFTSysOLf0LkTZ9VwKNcNLH5nZbz4NqM9xJo4H6SDneywdKpVuL4Tx23SNiyQ0_O1HMyQDxO5_DFlvV_v47AJMEGqfNPHush86CqO35XZhKhZA66fn_pHgGFvumEdzPbyvOyMEgQ/s320/Dustan1.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Church Bell Tower</b></span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"The ring of ten bells, the heaviest weighing 28¾ </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredweight" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hundredweight">hundredweight</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, which hang in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfry_(architecture)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Belfry (architecture)">belfry</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, were cast at the local </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel_Bell_Foundry" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Whitechapel Bell Foundry">Whitechapel Bell Foundry</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and are tuned to C#. The seven oldest bells were cast by Thomas Mears and Son, Whitechapel, in 1806. The bells were re-hung in 1899.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Moon_1-1" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Dunstan%27s,_Stepney#cite_note-Moon-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> Three were recast in 1952 when repairs were made to the tower.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Dunstan%27s,_Stepney#cite_note-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> The bells are mentioned in the nursery rhyme </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges_and_Lemons" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Oranges and Lemons">Oranges and Lemons</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">: "When will that be, say the bells o</span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">f Stepney."</span></div>
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6vPWlZklwXzx4jTVZbyF3-a8PTQPLMV4XIUYGvrip8xxfFyMEgClFLlrq5WeFzuQUzEQxUROMTqDyrUSWX46fpVZCQ8G6zdoQiuGD40Un0wlrmCywOCR9wItJnt9F9UOwn46g_Ff16yE/s1600/Dustan+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1554" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6vPWlZklwXzx4jTVZbyF3-a8PTQPLMV4XIUYGvrip8xxfFyMEgClFLlrq5WeFzuQUzEQxUROMTqDyrUSWX46fpVZCQ8G6zdoQiuGD40Un0wlrmCywOCR9wItJnt9F9UOwn46g_Ff16yE/s320/Dustan+3.JPG" width="310" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Parish Church of St. Dunstan and All Saints</b></span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: start;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"A fine triple <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedilia" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sedilia">Sedilia</a> is found in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancel" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Chancel">chancel</a>.The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rood" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Rood">rood</a> is late <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo_Saxon" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Anglo Saxon">Anglo Saxon</a>. Of note amongst the plate is a cup and patten dated 1559 and a beadles's staff and vergers wand of 1752.</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: start;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: start;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"The church is surrounded by a churchyard of nearly seven acres (28,000 m²). In 1658 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Greenhill" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="William Greenhill">William Greenhill</a> was appointed vicar whilst retaining his position as a preacher at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepney_Meeting_House" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Stepney Meeting House">Stepney Meeting House</a>. He held this post for about seven years, till he was ejected immediately after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_(1660)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Restoration (1660)">Restoration</a> in 1660.</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: start;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Shortly after this, the churchyard was enlarged to cope with the massive number of deaths during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Great Plague of London">Great Plague of London</a>. In one eighteen-month period 6,583 died, with 154 being buried in one day in September 1665.</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: start;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"The church has a long, traditional link with the sea and many sailors were buried here. It was once known as the 'Church of the High Seas'. The graveyard is also where <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Crab" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Roger Crab">Roger Crab</a>, the 17th-century hermit who lived on a diet solely of herbs, roots, leaves, grass and water, is buried." (Link 1.)</b></span></div>
**********<br />
<br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: left;">
<b style="color: black; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;">Photos: Taken in 2018 by RW with his iPhone while travelling in</b></div>
<div style="color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: left;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"></span></div>
<div style="color: black;">
<div style="font-family: "times new roman";">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> London from his home in Switzerland.</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "times new roman";">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="color: black; text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 1" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Dunstan%27s,_Stepney">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Dunstan%27s,_Stepney</a></b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="color: black;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 1" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Dunstan%27s,_Stepney">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Dunstan%27s,_Stepney</a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"></span></div>
<div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
<span style="vertical-align: inherit;"></span></div>
<div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="text-align: center;"> <u>Prayer</u></b></span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-29768773124486996242020-01-19T06:00:00.000-08:002020-04-25T15:44:46.875-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQQrFeSawpr4NecbWxxxdZNIn0ih1ry5ZRny15q4RWLFJcmca5uifJ_3N1HnHnnUxLx1r_9c7GDvRXc5h-dXHrm-ZNhnO1jdM83hBFGLzeQddToWMPbEL6PKnyeQYaiYmylqn92oBWo4k/s1600/figues+13.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQQrFeSawpr4NecbWxxxdZNIn0ih1ry5ZRny15q4RWLFJcmca5uifJ_3N1HnHnnUxLx1r_9c7GDvRXc5h-dXHrm-ZNhnO1jdM83hBFGLzeQddToWMPbEL6PKnyeQYaiYmylqn92oBWo4k/s400/figues+13.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Esglesia de Sant Pere Church</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Esglesia de Sant Pere</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Figueres, Girona Catonia, Spain</b></span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4DNopWX_FsKYvVFhTaHAEnvMBbPLSngG3BwrtXO9j4tnmZbQlIIui3dUs5B9eCk53KyGMnjNeIpgepQZ5mEPmeq2cQdBcQZMr8DbYoFMdTWE6-UFq1owHP4c_OxivQqbSqkS1DKmyyrM/s1600/figues+12.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4DNopWX_FsKYvVFhTaHAEnvMBbPLSngG3BwrtXO9j4tnmZbQlIIui3dUs5B9eCk53KyGMnjNeIpgepQZ5mEPmeq2cQdBcQZMr8DbYoFMdTWE6-UFq1owHP4c_OxivQqbSqkS1DKmyyrM/s320/figues+12.JPG" width="240" /></a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tower Detail</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Figueres ... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Catalan language">Catalan</a> for <i>fig trees</i>) is the capital of the <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia/Comarques" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Catalonia/Comarques">comarca</a></i> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_Empord%C3%A0" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Alt Empordà">Alt Empordà</a>, in the province of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girona_(province)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Girona (province)">Girona</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Catalonia">Catalonia</a>, Spain. (Located in north eastern Spain.)</b></span></div>
<b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"></span></b><br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"The town is the birthplace of artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Salvador Dalí">Salvador Dalí</a>, and houses the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dal%C3%AD_Theatre_and_Museum" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Dalí Theatre and Museum">Teatre-Museu Gala Salvador Dalí</a>, a large museum designed by Dalí himself which attracts many visitors. It is also the birthplace of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narc%C3%ADs_Monturiol" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Narcís Monturiol">Narcís Monturiol</a>, inventor of the first successful machine-powered <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Submarine">submarine</a>. Also born here was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B3nica_Naranjo" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mónica Naranjo">Mónica Naranjo</a>, one of the best selling Spanish singers of the 1990s and 2000s. </b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"The town's name derives from that of <i>Ficaris</i>, of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigoth_Kingdom" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Visigoth Kingdom">Visigoth</a> origin. In 1267, King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I_of_Aragon" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="James I of Aragon">James I of Aragon</a> conceded it <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuero" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Fuero">fuero</a></i> rights, but four years later Count <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pon%C3%A7_Hug_IV_of_Emp%C3%BAries" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ponç Hug IV of Empúries">Ponç IV of Empúries</a> set the town on fire. During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a>, it remained loyal to the Republican government, and was repeatedly bombed by the rebels. Figueres recovered starting from the 1950s, consolidating its economy around the tourism industry." (Link 2.)</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6U2kCZTsDRxKwh-V9utbZnQBKFd1AgtD_n7Kib0yx5su2PEDLDE1kkldFV-esuojERLlcgbYgsR1CoiNi1Mpm4EjxCOmUy_LCtrDer5EPZCb9rmopf420ZQWNQjNorOZ0l9NQEEABPRA/s1600/figues9.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1558" data-original-width="1600" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6U2kCZTsDRxKwh-V9utbZnQBKFd1AgtD_n7Kib0yx5su2PEDLDE1kkldFV-esuojERLlcgbYgsR1CoiNi1Mpm4EjxCOmUy_LCtrDer5EPZCb9rmopf420ZQWNQjNorOZ0l9NQEEABPRA/s320/figues9.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Church Plaque</b></span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">"The </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">church of Sant Pere de Figueres</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> is the </span></span><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esgl%C3%A9sia_(arquitectura)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Church (architecture)"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">church</span></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> , parochial, mostly </span></span><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arquitectura_g%C3%B2tica" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Gothic architecture"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Gothic</span></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> style </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">that is located in the square of Sant Pere de </span></span><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figueres_(Alt_Empord%C3%A0)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Figueres (Alt Empordà)"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Figueres</span></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> .</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;">It is a religious building of Gothic origin. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;">The façade is very simple with contemporary rosette and eardrum. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;">The interior has a single nave, with chapels occupying the lateral buttresses. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;">It has an octagonal dome and rebuilt belfry type fortification, the main apse and two sides: one is a tabernacle and the other sacristy. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;">In the lateral right side there is a porch with three pointed arches, of later invoice. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;">The natural lighting is achieved by two rosettes in the arms of the cruise, and that of the ship; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;">and through the stained glass windows of the central apse.</span></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo2A_zn33l9HoIoCn2FLDaUguLUq2MZbjgMGC3e8aTEDr33zmzgttWx_zP5MgvsjEQ6bJGbG98CGNxnzOklEw-ZlmYwvjXAs6QBqjobL8FC2x3kYhiVAUqE0dqdh9lwOGu4Na_OdFXRvg/s1600/figues+10.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo2A_zn33l9HoIoCn2FLDaUguLUq2MZbjgMGC3e8aTEDr33zmzgttWx_zP5MgvsjEQ6bJGbG98CGNxnzOklEw-ZlmYwvjXAs6QBqjobL8FC2x3kYhiVAUqE0dqdh9lwOGu4Na_OdFXRvg/s400/figues+10.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: inherit;"><b>Sant Pere Church Nave and Altar</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">"The first mention is 1020 and around it was built the medieval center of Figueres. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">It was probably built on a primitive paleo-christian church. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">From the early Romanesque temple (X-XI centuries) there are remains of the walls of the north face with a </span></span><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espitllera" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Shave">bush</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> to the left of the nave, at the foot of the bell tower. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">In the 14th century, the Gothic temple rises over the Romanesque building. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">This new building reached the present cruise and was of a single ship with vaults of crevasses and buttresses, without a cruise or girola. </span></span></b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKN0lKezGsJolkoa0UIO2P3Ao_jYvgKtI2XnTtf4q6QC3LwiCrmIrYjXKBBi5tPwyMNVpHUSzzEiueYQ_ji8j4DS-_Cb99ujJVRvMt_h5AgaZiLCS_Da5uIcFYOLU22G5EfLi2H78aDEg/s1600/figures+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKN0lKezGsJolkoa0UIO2P3Ao_jYvgKtI2XnTtf4q6QC3LwiCrmIrYjXKBBi5tPwyMNVpHUSzzEiueYQ_ji8j4DS-_Cb99ujJVRvMt_h5AgaZiLCS_Da5uIcFYOLU22G5EfLi2H78aDEg/s400/figures+1.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: center;">
<span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: inherit;"><b>Apse Windows</b></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">"In 1578 the façade was rebuilt, in a neoclassical style, where there is a great </span><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ull_de_bou" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ox-eye window">bull's eye</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> that gives birth to the whole ship. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Subsequently, it has undergone numerous extensions (in 1678 the Capella dels Dolors began on the north side) and modifications. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">In the eighteenth century the old gothic header is replaced by a </span></span><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creuer_(arquitectura)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Cruise (architecture)">cruise</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">and a polygonal apse. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">At the end In 1895 the dome was built according to a project by the architect </span></span><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Azemar_i_Pont" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Josep Azemar i Pont">Josep Azemar i Pont</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> . </span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;"> </span><br />
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br /></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;"> </span><br />
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwAAk2MvGzbAsrzmTyGk1z-ehyphenhyphenwuc15_wlHVal8ianSBycHYtgJlpoG3SeJp_YxBYAm5tfOFfuel4nie_S5GNU1jxzj5-1ZdAwBixErxYFwWvckfqoemsP_dMkVCpSw_D-8puLMysmWY4/s1600/figures.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1600" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwAAk2MvGzbAsrzmTyGk1z-ehyphenhyphenwuc15_wlHVal8ianSBycHYtgJlpoG3SeJp_YxBYAm5tfOFfuel4nie_S5GNU1jxzj5-1ZdAwBixErxYFwWvckfqoemsP_dMkVCpSw_D-8puLMysmWY4/s400/figures.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Church Relic</b></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: inherit;">
<div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto;">
<div class="thumbinner" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); overflow: hidden; padding: 3px; text-align: center; width: 222px;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<br />
<div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;">
<div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;">
<a class="internal" href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitxer:192_Esgl%C3%A9sia_de_Sant_Pere,_cimbori.jpg" style="background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 viewBox=%220 0 11 15%22 width=%2215%22 height=%2211%22%3E %3Cg id=%22magnify-clip%22 fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%23000%22%3E %3Cpath id=%22bigbox%22 d=%22M1.509 1.865h10.99v7.919h-10.99z%22/%3E %3Cpath id=%22smallbox%22 d=%22M-1.499 6.868h5.943v4.904h-5.943z%22/%3E %3C/g%3E %3C/svg%3E"); color: #0b0080; display: block; height: 11px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: 15px; user-select: none; white-space: nowrap; width: 15px;" title="Wide"></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">"During the Civil War the church suffers from major destructions (fires and demolitions). </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">In 1941 Amadeo Llopart, Enric Mora and Josep Maria Sagarra, from Barcelona, made the project for the restoration of the temple. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Between 1941 and 1948 it was reconstructed with stone ashlars, the cruise crowned by the </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">octagonal </span></span><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimbori" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Cimbori">dome</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> , following the gothic style of the old ship, thus achieving a unified, sober and monumental set. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">From the original Gothic temple the nave is conserved with the vaults of crevasse and the buttresses. </span></span></b></span></div>
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgetN5IhFyjkm0fkKqEfof4rkg4l4PE1YinNcmXVU6vxdGlylL-MUJLHUR224YIVY4KFGx9M4eW87jcCi8THO-_FByPjeb2hlPIimRbPyY7BQGOZXZnxWwUP7Flo5a5OasCZE4hj8C2DHk/s1600/figures+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgetN5IhFyjkm0fkKqEfof4rkg4l4PE1YinNcmXVU6vxdGlylL-MUJLHUR224YIVY4KFGx9M4eW87jcCi8THO-_FByPjeb2hlPIimRbPyY7BQGOZXZnxWwUP7Flo5a5OasCZE4hj8C2DHk/s400/figures+3.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Town Square Sculpture</span></span></b></span></div>
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">"In this chu</span></b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">rch </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Salvador Dalí">Salvador Dalí</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> was baptized"( Link 1.) </span></b></div>
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: center;">
************</div>
<div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<b style="color: black; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;">Photos: Taken in 2018 by RW with his iPhone while travelling in</b></div>
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"></span></div>
<div style="color: black;">
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Spain from his home in Switzerland.</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Link 1: <a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Pere_de_Figueres">https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Pere_de_Figueres</a> (Translation.)</b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></b><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 2: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figueres">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figueres</a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"></span></div>
<div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
<span style="vertical-align: inherit;"></span></div>
<div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="text-align: center;"> <u>Prayer</u></b></span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px;"><br /></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"> </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Link 1: <a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Pere_de_Figueres">https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Pere_de_Figueres</a> (Translation.)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Link 2: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figueres">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figueres</a></span></div>
</div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-57172024063986718472019-12-29T06:00:00.000-08:002019-12-29T12:05:47.080-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGTiUFWQRuD4NJl8x1SP4ybTcyaVu2TZWBagCJdIEnBK5UR0yovXh5Xu80CbnM4bfuo8pI_VSdFjOO0IMLYWCbiNjV7md4Pa2oWXA0PCCqAD05O66bzFRPAC4V_Rmvlru2NzjXDpL4M4/s1600/Dad%2527s+Photos+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1408" data-original-width="1600" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGTiUFWQRuD4NJl8x1SP4ybTcyaVu2TZWBagCJdIEnBK5UR0yovXh5Xu80CbnM4bfuo8pI_VSdFjOO0IMLYWCbiNjV7md4Pa2oWXA0PCCqAD05O66bzFRPAC4V_Rmvlru2NzjXDpL4M4/s400/Dad%2527s+Photos+003.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">St. Agnes Anglican Church 75th Anniversary Church Plate</b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>North Vancouver, B.C. Canada</b></span><br />
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></b>
<b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><u>2019 INDEX</u></span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><u><br /></u></span></b>
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>CANADA</u></b><br />
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u><br /></u></b>
<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">B.C.,</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Kimberly-</b><u><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Sacred Heart </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Catholic</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Church, </b></u><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">9/8/19.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"></span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> . </b></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u><b><u> ENGLAND</u></b></u></b></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>London<span style="font-size: medium;">-</span></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>All Hallows Church By The Tower,</u></b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> 6/30/19.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">London-</span></b><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><u> St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral,</u></span></b><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"> 7/14/1</span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">9.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">London-</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>St. Mary Cable Street Church of England,</u> </b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">7/28/19.</b><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">London-</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>St. Dunstan & All Saints </u></b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>the Parish Church of Stepney</u>, 8/11/19.</b><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>London- <u>London Airport Chapel, </u></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>Gatwick Airport</u>, 8/25/19.</b><br />
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b><u>ITALY</u></b></span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Bergamo-</b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><u> Chiesa Di San Leonardo,</u></span></b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> 5/19/19</b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Rome-</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>Santa Maria Della Concezione, 1/6/19.</u></b><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><u>MALLORCA</u></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="text-align: left;">Palma-</b><b style="text-align: left;"><u>Churches of Palma</u>, 10/20/19.</b></span></div>
</div>
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Pollenca-</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>Calvary Church,</u> 10/6/19.</b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Alcudia-</b><b><u>Santa Anna Church,</u> 11/3/19.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><u>MEXICO</u></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br />
<h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading" lang="en" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; overflow: visible; padding: 0px;">
<span style="color: #45818e; font-size: small;">Puerto Vallarta-</span><u style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;">Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe ,</u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">12/1/19.</span></h1>
<br />
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></b></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><u>SICILY</u></b></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Catania-</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> <u>Catania Airport Chapel,</u></b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> 5/5/19.</b><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"> </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Catania-</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"><u>Chiesa di Sant' Agostino Church, </u></b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">6/2/19.</b></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Catania-</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>Chiesa San Cristoforo</u>, </b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">4/14/19.</b></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #444444; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Catania-</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>Sant'Agata Cathedral,</u></b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> 3/31/19.</b></span><b style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> </b><br />
<b style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> </b><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Catania-</b><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>Train Station Chapel,</u> </b><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">2/3/19.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b style="color: #444444;">Siracusa-</b><b style="color: #444444;"><u> Santa Luca Alla Badia Church, </u></b><b style="color: #444444;"> 4/28.19.</b><b style="color: #444444;"> </b></b><br />
<b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Syracusa, </b><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>Basilica Santuario Madona Delle,</u></b><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> <u>Lacrime,</u></b><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> 2/17/19. </b><br />
<b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </b><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Syracusa-</b><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>Chiesa Parrocchia San Tommaso </u><u>Pantheon,</u> 1/20/1<u>9</u>.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></b>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>SPAIN</u></b></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Girona, Catalonia-</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>Girona Cathedral/Cathedral of St. Mary of Girona,</u> 11/17/19.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></b>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><u>USA</u></b></div>
<strong style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Remembrance Day </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><u>The Wall,</u> 11/10/19.</span></strong></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">*********</b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Photos: Taken by RW while traveling in Europe 2019.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Church Plate: Part of Suzanne's "Church Plate" collection.</b></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><u><br /></u></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><u><br /></u></b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><u><br /></u></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><u><br /></u></b></div>
</div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-23615342412160846292019-12-15T06:00:00.000-08:002019-12-15T14:44:47.230-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi05Bw_WCYZyk60qfPHhyphenhyphenPkowtMYkIzUq8HqvWsu3pgQsnsvbFxD4UwAr_aIwEwej1eyVTi32WRBpJgX5inJH3kUX_c2nQ4V9pKFNnl8eADhlYHOLOssv0WH5B6FCCBkG2cmFmDX6FKd_M/s1600/barcelona+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1327" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi05Bw_WCYZyk60qfPHhyphenhyphenPkowtMYkIzUq8HqvWsu3pgQsnsvbFxD4UwAr_aIwEwej1eyVTi32WRBpJgX5inJH3kUX_c2nQ4V9pKFNnl8eADhlYHOLOssv0WH5B6FCCBkG2cmFmDX6FKd_M/s400/barcelona+1.JPG" width="331" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Basilica de la Concepcio</span></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Basilica de la Concepcio</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Barcelona, Spain</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfJ7EUwCdGgvqktZKwkrpIRJAAUmTYzzrF8PlM-tsFZzYbQioOH52CbL_yT2prrZu5EybPF19GQJiy8wUUEBi7-9Quu3chyKfrt41WFqmdNKecriI8fJ2MWP7ytLID83BfA0XIhwkx-Bw/s1600/barcelona.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1230" data-original-width="1600" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfJ7EUwCdGgvqktZKwkrpIRJAAUmTYzzrF8PlM-tsFZzYbQioOH52CbL_yT2prrZu5EybPF19GQJiy8wUUEBi7-9Quu3chyKfrt41WFqmdNKecriI8fJ2MWP7ytLID83BfA0XIhwkx-Bw/s400/barcelona.JPG" width="400" /></a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Church Plaque</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="border-spacing: 3px; color: #3d85c6; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0.2em; width: 22em;"><table class="infobox vcard" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f8f9fa; border-spacing: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; color: black; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.32px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; orphans: 2; padding: 0.2em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; width: 22em; word-spacing: 0px;"></table>
</span></b></span>
<br />
<table class="infobox vcard" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-spacing: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; color: black; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 22em;"></table>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"The Basilica of the Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Our Lady is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Basilica">basilica</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Catalonia">Catalonia</a>. The church originated as the Jonqueres Monastery, that was moved stone by stone when the land of the monastery was to be demolished. In 1879, a bell tower was added from the church of San Miguel which was also going to be demolished. The rectory stands on the left side of the bell tower and is a historicist building built at the end of the 19th century. On 20 February 2009, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pope Benedict XVI">Pope Benedict XVI</a> granted the title of minor basilica to the church, which became the eighth basilica in the city.<span style="white-space: nowrap;">" (Link 1.)</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLmBprP5-VK8508NM2drlCpG_KtMIJH2TmFoFcW3MzS3JQcP3kDD8pkp3Gt_D8q5mCzRYhIdKIoeYzo2GWTY-CSHrliFnkc2pGE0MwYUZ0ci3t9Gnoh4E8o9oZ0whmq10dzkBHUXu-71A/s1600/Barcelona+9.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLmBprP5-VK8508NM2drlCpG_KtMIJH2TmFoFcW3MzS3JQcP3kDD8pkp3Gt_D8q5mCzRYhIdKIoeYzo2GWTY-CSHrliFnkc2pGE0MwYUZ0ci3t9Gnoh4E8o9oZ0whmq10dzkBHUXu-71A/s400/Barcelona+9.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Nave and Altar</span></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Basilica-Església de la Puríssima Concepció<br />Built: 1293-1448<br />Founded: 1214<br />Function: Parish church; minor basilica; former monastic community<br />Address: Aragó 299</b></span></div>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"The parish church of the Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Our Lady is Barcelona’s newest basilica, bringing the city’s present total to eight. Named by Pope Benedict XVI on the Feast of the Assumption 2009, it is actually one of the city’s oldest existing ecclesiastical buildings. The story of how it arrived at its present status, despite years of neglect, decline, and near-demolition, is a testimony to its parishoners and to the faithful in Barcelona to not only have this beautiful structure survive, but thrive.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></b>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyBUKWopFI01NIAsCn_0nd85Xzqza7kpKh-5bt-OE04EmHj-uz96TAc7kjGwu1RE0-KrBN1iCGHnvuO7zQoA-GcbxfJuxSpjm5dlhbc_ab8NGjLJk2gZB5Keyp7wSDltX50xID2aLKxpM/s400/Barcelona+6.JPG" width="300" /></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Rear of Sanctuary</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"The original monastic community of Benedictine sisters of Sant Vicenç de Jonqueres was founded in 1214 in the town of the same name, located just outside of Sabadell, a city situated about 10 miles from Barcelona. Apparently the sisters had some problems getting organized, and in 1261 following appeal to the Bishop of Barcelona, they were invited to move to that city. The nuns left their quarters in Jonqueres temporarily for Sabadell in 1273, while suitable buildings were located. The actual move was not completed until 1293, when the nuns took up residence on what is now the Carrer de Jonqueres, on the edge of the Gothic Quarter.</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisU_FhmLUSC_ZBbinI6mWxICJixcI7K7ocz26Tl-x7cMaNrrBLtvpNq6HPgzfvu8H2PANd_pAZ9Li3BYHV8J-umbYBJ3sPUwtktMGWbPR9Wyk56Zn3aaki5VEIwVXhbs_1hJQV9bX36Do/s1600/Barcelona+7.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisU_FhmLUSC_ZBbinI6mWxICJixcI7K7ocz26Tl-x7cMaNrrBLtvpNq6HPgzfvu8H2PANd_pAZ9Li3BYHV8J-umbYBJ3sPUwtktMGWbPR9Wyk56Zn3aaki5VEIwVXhbs_1hJQV9bX36Do/s320/Barcelona+7.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Side Altar</b></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #262626; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Their new convent was named Santa Maria de Jonqueres, recalling their origin but distinguishing themselves from the parish of Saint Vincent where they had experienced so many problems. By 1300, with the construction of the first permanent chapel on the site, the convent was officially renamed Sant Jaume de l’Espasa, since the nuns had adopted the Rule of St. James of the Sword, better-known as the famous religious-military order of Santiago. However, the community continued to be referred to colloquially as Santa Maria de Jonqueres.</b></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6RbYpkzYK1K6FD6cmIzPRO_n5gSNMHbXp9qguRZRu6Du0N0rLJ8h8N2c-eH8fkjuRLLB6SxRFZ6oeLnpbOtart7kvW4Hp3tp2PipWPtIHd2ttsP5RxrYio1rr_KmwBXRjomdyKDJRtdg/s1600/Barcelona+8.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6RbYpkzYK1K6FD6cmIzPRO_n5gSNMHbXp9qguRZRu6Du0N0rLJ8h8N2c-eH8fkjuRLLB6SxRFZ6oeLnpbOtart7kvW4Hp3tp2PipWPtIHd2ttsP5RxrYio1rr_KmwBXRjomdyKDJRtdg/s320/Barcelona+8.JPG" width="240" /></a></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Side Altar</b></span></div>
</div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #262626; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"The community quickly beca</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">e associa</b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>ted with the daughters of the noble families of Barcelona, and grew extremely wealthy. Their original holdings were enormous, covering numerous square blocks of the old city. The two-story cloister was completed before 1400, and in 1448 the consecration of the enormous Catalan Gothic monastic chapel, which replaced the simpler version that had been built between 1293-1300, took place with great fanfare.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b></b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>:"The nuns were expelled and their community dissolved in 1810, during the Napoleonic period, and in 1820 the convent was converted into a military hospital. The site subsequently became a prison, and still later a military depot. In 1867, the chapel itself was named a parish by the Archdiocese, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception and Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the remains of the convent, which were in very poor repair by this time, were finally torn down in 1868.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg20wbAyLnlIn71tyHj9MXsNhJxOCrAahzd5MmoADIwH7B73AcdsSgDi0snW8Ahx_IFki0kWZZbLDb1MzUZ6G-QrFWrIwqbk6e9MroLmPp5UShh9ESdw9tsDpmNJ_gh0YbWsRUNWK6fxOU/s1600/arcelona+5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg20wbAyLnlIn71tyHj9MXsNhJxOCrAahzd5MmoADIwH7B73AcdsSgDi0snW8Ahx_IFki0kWZZbLDb1MzUZ6G-QrFWrIwqbk6e9MroLmPp5UShh9ESdw9tsDpmNJ_gh0YbWsRUNWK6fxOU/s320/arcelona+5.JPG" width="240" /></a></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Side Altar</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #262626; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"During Barcelona’s expansion in the mid-19th century, the complex was slated for demolition because it lay along a proposed route to connect the northern part of the new city to the seafront. Fortunately, due to foresight by the Archdiocese and the local gentry, between 1869 and 1871 the former chapel and the cloister were moved, stone by stone, from their original location in the Gothic Quarter to their present site in the Eixample, the 19th century grid-like district which houses much of Barcelona’s famous 19th and 20th century buildings. The church was then re-consecrated in 1872 and became the first parish in this new district of the city. In 1879, when the Church of St. Michael was torn down in order to make way for the expansion of City Hall, the portal of the church went to the Basilica of La Mercè, but the bell tower was given to the parish of La Concepció." (Link 2.)</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
***********</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Photos: Taken in 2018 by RW with his iPhone while travelling in</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Spain from his home in Switzerland.</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Link 1: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_the_Immaculate_Conception_(Barcelona)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_the_Immaculate_Conception_(Barcelona)</a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Link 2: <a href="https://catholicbarcelona.com/2014/03/01/la-concepcio-updated/">https://catholicbarcelona.com/2014/03/01/la-concepcio-updated/</a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="text-align: center;"> <u>Prayer</u></b></span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-76521005819411364902019-12-01T06:00:00.001-08:002019-12-21T11:41:03.937-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSXWUmkkwMoBT2cYtokyFIiDw90EYDY-h48iuRH-N09j1qFjFSyna2WolCoWzjxVeKY1Ab66tZAgsMisREgQ8DWUltUZZDeHF4VTGA1PFMLgSHRNQia5-sJ2stLxXznnY8J6OqQWf_eHk/s1600/PV+church+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="911" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSXWUmkkwMoBT2cYtokyFIiDw90EYDY-h48iuRH-N09j1qFjFSyna2WolCoWzjxVeKY1Ab66tZAgsMisREgQ8DWUltUZZDeHF4VTGA1PFMLgSHRNQia5-sJ2stLxXznnY8J6OqQWf_eHk/s400/PV+church+007.JPG" width="226" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Puerto Vallarta, Mexico</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span>
<br />
<h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading" lang="en" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe </span></h1>
<h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading" lang="en" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #45818e;">Puerto Vallarta, Mexico</span></h1>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixPs-Vx-Pmd8fQjTSuEk-HRGbK1TG1Qm8lS_gB0AgABn81IFT2XnJpTKkTgfwTbTNKbHg_YbBMyjXg7lY4Vyr5Os1UXXygXe2eX19I3EZmqi19_QcWruNtWArf1R8sLwmXUqfZMuFYxI0/s1600/PV+church+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1161" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixPs-Vx-Pmd8fQjTSuEk-HRGbK1TG1Qm8lS_gB0AgABn81IFT2XnJpTKkTgfwTbTNKbHg_YbBMyjXg7lY4Vyr5Os1UXXygXe2eX19I3EZmqi19_QcWruNtWArf1R8sLwmXUqfZMuFYxI0/s320/PV+church+002.JPG" width="232" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="color: black;">Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="color: black;"><br /></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, known locally as La Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-USNews_1-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe_(Puerto_Vallarta)#cite_note-USNews-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup> is a church building in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Vallarta" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Puerto Vallarta">Puerto Vallarta</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalisco" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jalisco">Jalisco</a>, Mexico. The church has been called "one of the most endearing" of the city's landmarks.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-USNews_1-1" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe_(Puerto_Vallarta)#cite_note-USNews-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup> It is open daily, with services in English available on Saturdays and mass in both Spanish and English on Sundays.</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"The church tower is topped with a wrought-iron crown hoisted by angels designed to resemble one worn by Empress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlota_of_Mexico" style="background: none;" title="Carlota of Mexico">Carlota of Mexico</a>." (link 1.)</b></span></div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk4ic2ZvLBddlTX8c1Kk3JAAsh6E9zTNbxSrTvXKgqubapCRZOuF7VRz6Q-8XhAUtWFn28yOEoE7Xsr93BbbouCq-fU_m0cFizJMejfhQaGyOSCgDJUv7Ts1lyMbM0pqs9rzFh55lusRg/s1600/pv+church+009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1290" data-original-width="1186" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk4ic2ZvLBddlTX8c1Kk3JAAsh6E9zTNbxSrTvXKgqubapCRZOuF7VRz6Q-8XhAUtWFn28yOEoE7Xsr93BbbouCq-fU_m0cFizJMejfhQaGyOSCgDJUv7Ts1lyMbM0pqs9rzFh55lusRg/s320/pv+church+009.JPG" width="294" /></a></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Entrance</b><br />
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"P<a href="https://www.puertovallarta.net/fast_facts/g_city_info" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" title="Puerto Vallarta">erto Vallarta</a><span style="background-color: white;">'s Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish (Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe) is a city icon, it dominates Vallarta's downtown skyline and is one of the favorite symbols and landmarks of the city, not only in photos but also shirts, logos and postcards.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">"...</span><span style="background-color: white;">one of the most important city monuments and the spiritual center of the Catholics in town (</span><a href="https://www.puertovallarta.net/fast_facts/religion" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" title="religion in Vallarta">religion in Vallarta</a><span style="background-color: white;">).</span></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">There is always activity around and within the church, the church bells are rung by the sextants 30 and 15 minutes prior to each service, but it reaches almost a level of frenzy in the 12 days of the </span><a href="https://www.puertovallarta.net/fast_facts/virgen-de-guadalupe" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" title="Our Lady of Guadalupe">Our Lady of Guadalupe</a><span style="background-color: white;"> Festival (also known as Feast of Guadalupe), held every year from December 1st to the 12th.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"During these festivities you'll notice a mix of both traditional Christian and Aztec motifs, young warriors dance in the streets, processions advance through the streets and include lots of banners, music, singing, and colorfully decorated floats mainly with scenes that include the Virgin and Juan Diego, commemorating the miraculous apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe to the Indian peasant called Juan Diego on December 12th, 1531. These festivities are attended by tens of thousands, locals and visitors.</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> "The foundations of the church were started in 1903, but at the time there was already a small chapel there dedicated to Virgin Guadalupe. In 1915 father Francisco Ayala arrived and he, with foresight, suggested that a bigger temple than the one that had been designed be built instead.</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMIKwgtRnFEC0BENSGIDf9kF_eoHdq9i6UNjzuZK5QNYYECXXFfS1S8YXeoW9YKKkCyKQ_fewAiEfBMQdU3NMe71QvTPk8ye50bsARu8ZDPxS_TZmRg_P0WdTtbYfUKwof-PKe3-NahS0/s1600/pv+church+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1311" data-original-width="974" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMIKwgtRnFEC0BENSGIDf9kF_eoHdq9i6UNjzuZK5QNYYECXXFfS1S8YXeoW9YKKkCyKQ_fewAiEfBMQdU3NMe71QvTPk8ye50bsARu8ZDPxS_TZmRg_P0WdTtbYfUKwof-PKe3-NahS0/s400/pv+church+010.JPG" width="296" /></a></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe</b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Interior</b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRtYR_RLUd-xTT1DDZf_mrOEveRBatvGC9uHsi5sMeARhgFjclMJKeD59HU2_L6fb8THfGQojiKGdiuoatmSDWKz1f_XZyoB9IdnCjwdTmQeVA4808oqijHsPFE-Xe5Pxn61ir7BtffJE/s1600/pv+church+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="497" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRtYR_RLUd-xTT1DDZf_mrOEveRBatvGC9uHsi5sMeARhgFjclMJKeD59HU2_L6fb8THfGQojiKGdiuoatmSDWKz1f_XZyoB9IdnCjwdTmQeVA4808oqijHsPFE-Xe5Pxn61ir7BtffJE/s400/pv+church+010.JPG" width="282" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe</b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Altar</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></b></div>
<div class="normal-ind3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"... existing foundations were strengthened and finished by 1917, including the main pillars and walls. Construction really started earnestly in the early 1920s around the still functioning chapel, including the blessing of the "eucaristía", the main bell. The official start date, celebrated at the church each year with a mass, is October 12, 1921.</b></span></div>
</div>
<div class="normal-ind3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Construction work halted completely in 1926 when a conflict between church and state escalated to outright war, known as the Cristero War, which ended in 1929.</b></span></div>
</div>
<div class="normal-ind3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Church construction started in 1930 with the beginning of the dome. By 1940 the entire building was finished, except the two towers.</b></span></div>
</div>
<div class="normal-ind3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;">"December 12, 1951, the chancel and the Hammond organ installed in it were used for the first time (notice the date). The father at that time, Rafael Parra wanted the main tower finished at that date, but this wouldn't be the case until </b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;">1952.</b></div>
</div>
<div class="normal-ind3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbxJ4kONaRtZemfWRfmM7IZ2eV-Ua82iAGuggw4zYF46clBqO4X5aXfecSPRb5UbJfcmHo6QCTqsNySvVAeN_jcjzpRlaLBTaus6IKiEjEjny2wcBZ8hwxmFTHtfSalEbZtKUg5JE7WFw/s1600/PV+church+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1138" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbxJ4kONaRtZemfWRfmM7IZ2eV-Ua82iAGuggw4zYF46clBqO4X5aXfecSPRb5UbJfcmHo6QCTqsNySvVAeN_jcjzpRlaLBTaus6IKiEjEjny2wcBZ8hwxmFTHtfSalEbZtKUg5JE7WFw/s320/PV+church+004.JPG" width="227" /></a><br />
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe</b><br />
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Crown at Night</b></div>
<div class="normal-ind3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"The crown" the Parish, what better t</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> han a crown. It was placed on the main tower in 1965 <span class="normal-ind3-5" style="box-sizing: border-box;">(based on the city historian, Carlos Munguía Fregoso)</span> and was sketched by the priest Rafael Parra Castillo, the same person who designed the tower. The original crown was designed and sculpted by <a href="https://www.puertovallarta.net/what_to_do/sculptures-12-miguel-hidalgo" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;" title="José Esteban Ramírez Guareño">José Esteban Ramírez Guareño</a> in 1965.</b></div>
</div>
<div class="normal-ind3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"The crown <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">IS NOT</span>, as normally found online, a replica of one supposedly worn by Carlota, the mistress of Emperor Maximilian in the 1800's, which furthermore - as explained on the Parish website - only would have been a tiara based on her hierarchy within the nobility.</b></span></div>
</div>
<div class="normal-ind3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0fCqcTZpYtSe6ednBK-5ocNSEKn1lwe5NpJEdfCKeK-oMyJHmFbqQWHTO6c4MolMWVsOQz8UmeIm-ex-TLmsMtQjQZqyKS-EFWWZPw1NT21t8v-em0nlybFNqmeSiNajo9V6L3CMajI/s1600/PV+church+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1128" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0fCqcTZpYtSe6ednBK-5ocNSEKn1lwe5NpJEdfCKeK-oMyJHmFbqQWHTO6c4MolMWVsOQz8UmeIm-ex-TLmsMtQjQZqyKS-EFWWZPw1NT21t8v-em0nlybFNqmeSiNajo9V6L3CMajI/s400/PV+church+003.JPG" width="281" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Tower At Night</b></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="normal-ind3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"...finally finished in 1987 and what we know as the Our Lady of Guadalupe church was finally ready.</b></span></div>
</div>
<div class="normal-ind3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"The church itself, not a cathedral, as many name it (it's not presided by a Bishop), is not really a sophisticated architectural design, it's a mix of styles that is result of the different parish priests' tastes and ideas that appeared along the way, elements are neoclassic, like the main building, the crown is reminiscent of baroque European temples, the side towers have a renaissance touch, and so on. "(Link 2.)</b></span></div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b>*********</b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Photos: Taken in November 2019 by Amy Wilson while on holiday in </b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Puerta Vallarta, Mexico. Thank you.</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 1: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe_(Puerto_Vallarta)&source=gmail&ust=1574786584632000&usg=AFQjCNFvyqRMIlF7wICk-GhXhCP4lDt2bA" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe_(Puerto_Vallarta)" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr></wbr>Church_of_Our_Lady_</a></b></span><b style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe_(Puerto_Vallarta)&source=gmail&ust=1574786584632000&usg=AFQjCNFvyqRMIlF7wICk-GhXhCP4lDt2bA" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe_(Puerto_Vallarta)" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">of_</a></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<b style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe_(Puerto_Vallarta)&source=gmail&ust=1574786584632000&usg=AFQjCNFvyqRMIlF7wICk-GhXhCP4lDt2bA" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe_(Puerto_Vallarta)" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Guadalupe_(Puerto_Vallarta)</a></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 2: <a href="https://www.puertovallarta.net/what_to_do/our-lady-of-guadalupe-church">https://www.puertovallarta.net/what_to_do/our-lady-of-guadalupe-church</a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Also see Blog Post 12/1/13 with photos by Suzanne Wilson.)</span></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<br /></div>
</div>
</div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-23361854879703390962019-11-17T06:00:00.000-08:002019-12-21T11:37:09.937-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVBwmM1tyGlm_KNApPk28lr1jS85vYddsWypcaE2I9soBxBIRBBC93TI6jgI3A4dcDHWO5YLlq9SXJCsH83gM5WrCbMgQDR7CPRvOfJvE5pfBVwXfLQqzzoeOxAXvugIcLCvg18vCrvq4/s1600/Gion+6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1201" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVBwmM1tyGlm_KNApPk28lr1jS85vYddsWypcaE2I9soBxBIRBBC93TI6jgI3A4dcDHWO5YLlq9SXJCsH83gM5WrCbMgQDR7CPRvOfJvE5pfBVwXfLQqzzoeOxAXvugIcLCvg18vCrvq4/s400/Gion+6.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Book Rendering of Girona Cathedral</b></span></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Girona Cathedral/Cathedral of St. Mary of Girona</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Girona, Catalonia, Spain</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"Girona</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> ...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> is a city in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Catalonia">Catalonia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Spain">Spain</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, at the confluence of the rivers </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ter_River" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Ter River">Ter</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyar" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Onyar">Onyar</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, Galligants, and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCell" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Güell">Güell</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and has an official population of 99,013 as of January 2017. It is the capital of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Girona" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Province of Girona">province of the same name</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and of the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comarques_of_Catalonia" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Comarques of Catalonia">comarca</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giron%C3%A8s" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Gironès">Gironès</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. It is located 99 km (62 mi) northeast of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. Girona is one of the major Catalan cities. "(Link 2.)</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></b></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYU-AQusg3QghSTNxGqqayH7ITc_FZhkgle8jNZZLViAKle5ymbXSw3z2ERXLytQJbrH0lM3eA14rnFuTLWQH53gyafaPVill1Jn07BQ3xRpCMIVAWUYZqcalcNMc_df6gSzY88YexgWM/s1600/Giona+Cathedral+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1469" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYU-AQusg3QghSTNxGqqayH7ITc_FZhkgle8jNZZLViAKle5ymbXSw3z2ERXLytQJbrH0lM3eA14rnFuTLWQH53gyafaPVill1Jn07BQ3xRpCMIVAWUYZqcalcNMc_df6gSzY88YexgWM/s400/Giona+Cathedral+1.JPG" width="366" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Southern Portico, the Apostles</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Girona Cathedral</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, also known as the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Cathedral of Saint Mary of Girona</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> ...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> is a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Catholic Church">Roman Catholic</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_architecture" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Church architecture">church</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> located in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girona" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Girona">Girona</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Catalonia">Catalonia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Spain">Spain</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. It is the seat of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Girona" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Girona">Roman Catholic Diocese of Girona</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Cathedral">cathedral</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">'s interior includes the widest </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_architecture" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Gothic architecture">Gothic</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nave" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Nave">nave</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> in the world, with a width of 22 metres (72 ft), and the second-widest of any church after that of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Basilica" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="St. Peter's Basilica">St. Peter's Basilica</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> ...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. Its construction was begun in the 11th century in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesque_architecture" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Romanesque architecture">Romanesque </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">architectural style, and continued in the 13th century in the Gothic style. Of the original Romanesque edifice only the 12th-century </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloister" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Cloister">cloister</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_tower" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Bell tower">bell tower</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> remain. The second bell tower was completed in the 18th century.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></b></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglYaO6PN7RdUBf66CMJ8czzvqddl8zCM22OrJ6Rl36ziuDYz3bkMnsTB7FbvzLCIyETnWDnjlYdkQWXUhI65YliYqiwtXTi3c4EQ6-kBdJkqNFOxnACiBKdZxm3ura1YQLQ1L-ADn6QCI/s1600/Giona+Cathedral+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglYaO6PN7RdUBf66CMJ8czzvqddl8zCM22OrJ6Rl36ziuDYz3bkMnsTB7FbvzLCIyETnWDnjlYdkQWXUhI65YliYqiwtXTi3c4EQ6-kBdJkqNFOxnACiBKdZxm3ura1YQLQ1L-ADn6QCI/s320/Giona+Cathedral+2.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: 700;">Tower</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"A primitive Christian church existed here before the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_conquest_of_Iberia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Islamic conquest of Iberia">Islamic conquest of Iberia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, after which it was converted into a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Mosque">mosque</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, in 717. The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Franks">Franks</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> reconquered the city in 785 under </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Charlemagne">Charlemagne</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and the church was reconsecrated in 908.</span></b></span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXLvOWGshiL_gM40xe3tJ-fkSJg68AP9yu2lsTXHFRmX2fmESMfMQb-YX5ZpiO70_6gOptiAPTT9_qf_I4bfE90snY94-GPVT59mwJbhnWd1uK9tgNv49QUsZgq95ZqPbDRny_9n1jv-A/s1600/Giona+5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXLvOWGshiL_gM40xe3tJ-fkSJg68AP9yu2lsTXHFRmX2fmESMfMQb-YX5ZpiO70_6gOptiAPTT9_qf_I4bfE90snY94-GPVT59mwJbhnWd1uK9tgNv49QUsZgq95ZqPbDRny_9n1jv-A/s400/Giona+5.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Main Facade and Entrance Under the Tower</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> "The church and its cloister were built until 1064, in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesque_architecture" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Romanesque architecture">Romanesque</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> style. The bell tower was completed in 1117.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></b></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"The church has a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_architecture" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Baroque architecture">Baroque</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> main façade (begun in 1606, with the upper part finished in 1961)</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="color: #222222; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girona_Cathedral#cite_note-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> preceded by a large staircase completed in 1607. The sculptures decorating the three orders of the façade were executed by local sculptors in the 1960s. Other exterior features include the Gothic portal of St. Michael, on the northern façade, and the southern portico of the Apostles, from the 14th century. </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></b></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNcvLmD-HnjREJDR2Js3x8GGB6jlTj7_gkvyo1xT0Ebx9Lna5tHm0JGAbb22-QPhiRo44Je47qWhsmJG99PdHDPbW2nNTuhvTFP05QiBk8UJoXri2CNMxKvda7T9_p9pZ2NUQP6utHOCY/s1600/Giona+4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1201" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNcvLmD-HnjREJDR2Js3x8GGB6jlTj7_gkvyo1xT0Ebx9Lna5tHm0JGAbb22-QPhiRo44Je47qWhsmJG99PdHDPbW2nNTuhvTFP05QiBk8UJoXri2CNMxKvda7T9_p9pZ2NUQP6utHOCY/s400/Giona+4.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sanctuary</span></b></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"The church has two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_tower" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Bell tower">bell towers</a>. The oldest one, named after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Charlemagne">Charlemagne</a>, is the surviving one of the two originally flanking the first Romanesque church (the other ceased to exist in the 14th century). Begun in the early 11th century, it has a square plan with six levels separated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieze" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Frieze">friezes</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_band" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Lombard band">Lombard bands</a> and double <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullioned_window" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Mullioned window">mullioned windows</a>. The new bell tower, begun in 1590 and completed (with a modified design) in the 18th century, has an <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octagonal" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Octagonal">octagonal</a> plan. It houses six bells, the oldest one dating to 1574."(Link 1.)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk5G388cQHezKLmp2MX_efZ7sihOOIUzKh-Fh7Mwm6vA469YO-xBM_hS86OmjLeMAjKKYw1Wyo6pfBJt2DdWMOujCvYpHohpnjm7bfer2qGJlSdT_2Vc9wRuxYGLkwo6Fc-1Ukaha_ASY/s1600/Goria+13.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk5G388cQHezKLmp2MX_efZ7sihOOIUzKh-Fh7Mwm6vA469YO-xBM_hS86OmjLeMAjKKYw1Wyo6pfBJt2DdWMOujCvYpHohpnjm7bfer2qGJlSdT_2Vc9wRuxYGLkwo6Fc-1Ukaha_ASY/s320/Goria+13.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Exterior</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8BHmCK9uA5tLtQb0NjAhyphenhyphen64T-rOZmPfA-SW_XSx9Tej012aPlj6CZA3uqv2tfeW3pEOUv_SuhsfAdO4zXQCIjWzw_XsawJt-Jv9yJ8z4ERQSyM4GJ3p1K2gCaqFoZ88sOhvbJi9tBEiE/s1600/Girona+32.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1435" data-original-width="1507" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8BHmCK9uA5tLtQb0NjAhyphenhyphen64T-rOZmPfA-SW_XSx9Tej012aPlj6CZA3uqv2tfeW3pEOUv_SuhsfAdO4zXQCIjWzw_XsawJt-Jv9yJ8z4ERQSyM4GJ3p1K2gCaqFoZ88sOhvbJi9tBEiE/s400/Girona+32.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Tower</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">****** </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div>
</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Photos: Taken in 2018 by RW with his iPhone while travelling in</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Spain from his home in Switzerland.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 1: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girona_Cathedral">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girona_Cathedral</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 2:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girona">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girona</a></b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="text-align: center;"> <u>Prayer</u></b></span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-69302551002419917662019-11-10T06:00:00.000-08:002019-12-21T11:33:09.069-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5igf-w_ViEElW3-aWrlbNGIZsofA_zrKnWFaG9SpypTz08rbhJdhLSNjn_pm9sS6-AWQtG2xpApqu_AbCOaFXytcvTkzVKcavAyi_1mp3UKvvMb-qncEZ-4oFdluIfK69SlzPFgZWDXz7/s1600/Blog+November+2010+029.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5igf-w_ViEElW3-aWrlbNGIZsofA_zrKnWFaG9SpypTz08rbhJdhLSNjn_pm9sS6-AWQtG2xpApqu_AbCOaFXytcvTkzVKcavAyi_1mp3UKvvMb-qncEZ-4oFdluIfK69SlzPFgZWDXz7/s400/Blog+November+2010+029.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div align="center">
<br /></div>
<strong><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Remembrance Day</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large;">The Wall</span></strong><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia";">This is a story of my family. My grandmother, Marie, was born on a farm in Petasky, Michigan. She had 5 brothers and 4 sisters. She moved to Wisconsin as a bride and died in 1952 at age 67 in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. My mother kept in touch with several of her brothers and sisters. One of these was her Uncle Charlie who had moved to Rapid City South Dakota. In 1956 when I graduated from high school and my brother graduated from grade school my mother took us by train and then bus to visit the Black Hills, Yellowstone Park, and her Uncle Charlie.</span></strong><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia";">I had heard about her Uncle Charlie over the years. He and his 1st wife Kate had never had children. Then in his 60's they were divorced and he married his second wife, the young Kate. Kate had been a nurse in the Korean War. Her 1st husband had been a pilot who was killed in that war. She had a son, Alan, from that marriage. Kate and Uncle Charlie also had a son, of course, named Charlie. Charlie had red hair and freckles, was rambunctious and looked like "What me worry?" This great gift to Uncle Charlie so late in his life became his life. Alan was 9 and Charlie was about 5 when my mother, brother, and I visited this family.</span></strong><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia";">Many years after this visit I heard that Charlie, the great gift to my mother's Uncle Charlie, was killed in Vietnam. My prayers went out to Uncle Charlie in his grief and Kate who had suffered such a loss in the Korean War.</span></strong><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia";">When the Vietnam War Memorial was installed in Washington D. C. an accompanying "Moving Wall" went on tour. The replica was true to the original, a long rambling wall of black with the names of those that sacrificed their lives in the Vietnam War. A soldier stood on guard with eyes on the wall. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia";">This "Moving Wall" came to Vancouver in 1988 and was mounted in Sunset Beach Park. It was here that I visited the "Moving Wall". I approached the soldier on guard who took me to the spot where "Charlie Reberg" was carved into the black surface. I touched his name and thought of the little five year old with red hair and freckles and his parents who adored him. And I prayed for them and all the other parents who had such a loss.</span></strong><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia";">In 1998 the US Government offered rubbings of the names of those on the wall on request. I gratefully received a copy of "Charlie Reberg" </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia";">as it appears on "The Wall". It can be seen in the photo below.</span></strong><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4u9BizzFkQ94TeC_S6j8aHR7xUKdbJ7ZIgAFI8KAh2Ls-1Oy-yjZC-nUGLGCoUNQNP9HssSUhFw8-u1zU4-BRJVadKsse8ibqPVHJg_17JM2Ad5RlqrhpfggafarCHT92ahj8OVbV4JgX/s1600/Blog+November+2010+030.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="165" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4u9BizzFkQ94TeC_S6j8aHR7xUKdbJ7ZIgAFI8KAh2Ls-1Oy-yjZC-nUGLGCoUNQNP9HssSUhFw8-u1zU4-BRJVadKsse8ibqPVHJg_17JM2Ad5RlqrhpfggafarCHT92ahj8OVbV4JgX/s400/Blog+November+2010+030.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div>
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia";">Each Remembrance Day, I remember. I remember the sparkle in Uncle Charlie's eyes as he watched his five year old Charlie play in the front yard of their Rapid City home. I remember that quietness of 9 year old Alan that seemed to reflect the death of his father in the Korean War. I think of the grief of young Kate and her double sacrifice. And I pray for all the other families that have made this sacrifice. Let us remember.</span></strong></div>
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia";">Photo: Taken of Suzanne Wilson's copy of "Charlie Reberg's" name on the Vietnam Memorial, "The Wall."</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia";">Link:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial</a></span></strong><br />
<strong><br /></strong><strong><br /></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><u>Prayer</u></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>God, be with the persecuted Christians through out the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div>
</div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-77036909011836002302019-11-03T06:00:00.003-08:002019-11-03T12:01:09.709-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPFseX2mWVUvdR7PTtxU8v_Q0wzlomkecsxn4D2sS9c7_-WBOIKMSZ4BqrGzIwlK3HrFGg6VfHO7PobGebA50SuXWG2qYXwE_jJ-xpB8Zhkj9hzQoLawFmjceFnop0CBGaGQyFK_s5Z0/s1600/Hollly+016.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPFseX2mWVUvdR7PTtxU8v_Q0wzlomkecsxn4D2sS9c7_-WBOIKMSZ4BqrGzIwlK3HrFGg6VfHO7PobGebA50SuXWG2qYXwE_jJ-xpB8Zhkj9hzQoLawFmjceFnop0CBGaGQyFK_s5Z0/s400/Hollly+016.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>St. Joseph (Foyer Statue)</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Mount Joseph Catholic Hospital</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Vancouver, B.C. Canada</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<div style="background-color: white; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Joseph (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" style="background: none;" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: <span dir="rtl" lang="he">יוֹסֵף</span>, <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Hebrew" style="background: none;" title="Romanization of Hebrew">romanized</a>: </small><i lang="he-Latn" title="Hebrew-language romanization">Yosef</i>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" style="background: none;" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">Ἰωσήφ</span>, <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek" style="background: none;" title="Romanization of Greek">romanized</a>: </small><i lang="el-Latn" title="Greek-language romanization">Ioséph</i>) is a figure in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_gospels" style="background: none;" title="Canonical gospels">canonical gospels</a> who was married to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_mother_of_Jesus" style="background: none;" title="Mary, mother of Jesus">Mary, Jesus' mother</a>, and was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" style="background: none;" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>' legal father.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph#cite_note-1" style="background: none;">[1]</a></sup> In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha" style="background: none;" title="Apocrypha">Apocrypha</a>, Joseph was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_of_Jesus" style="background: none;" title="Brothers of Jesus">the father</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James,_brother_of_Jesus" style="background: none;" title="James, brother of Jesus">James</a>, Joses, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_(brother_of_Jesus)" style="background: none;" title="Jude (brother of Jesus)">Jude</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(brother_of_Jesus)" style="background: none;" title="Simon (brother of Jesus)">Simon</a>, and at least two daughters. According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphanius_of_Salamis" style="background: none;" title="Epiphanius of Salamis">Epiphanius</a> and the apocryphal <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Joseph_the_Carpenter" style="background: none;" title="History of Joseph the Carpenter">History of Joseph the Carpenter</a></i>, these children were from a marriage which predated the one with Mary, a belief that is accepted by some select Christian denominations. Perspectives on Joseph as a historical figure are distinguished from a theological reading of the Gospel texts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph#cite_note-2" style="background: none;">[2]</a></sup></b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" style="background: none;" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" style="background: none;" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodox Church</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Church" style="background: none;" title="Oriental Orthodox Church">Oriental Orthodox Church</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicanism" style="background: none;" title="Anglicanism">Anglicanism</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheranism" style="background: none;" title="Lutheranism">Lutheranism</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph#cite_note-3" style="background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph#cite_note-4" style="background: none;">[4]</a></sup> In both Catholic and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant" style="background: none;" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> traditions, Joseph is regarded as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patron_saint" style="background: none;" title="Patron saint">patron saint</a> of workers and is associated with various <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_day" style="background: none;" title="Feast day">feast days</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_IX" style="background: none;" title="Pope Pius IX">Pope Pius IX</a> declared him to be both the patron and the protector of the Catholic Church, in addition to his patronages of the sick and of a happy death, due to the belief that he died in the presence of Jesus and Mary. In popular piety, Joseph is regarded as a model for fathers and has also become patron of various dioceses and places.(Link 2)</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQMAuK-YS1di5q_UHQdGBIi-fmlv0bBdbdOXzAE6VKPji3jlK4RBdX8r9eoS2twZVh1ZHiutBbyriLB3il_jbWITXf1MuY6yaRAyq1Dz7nUv5mbVhwMmB1SGV89ti0rfHAZWTbxETP-QQ/s1600/Hollly+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1212" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQMAuK-YS1di5q_UHQdGBIi-fmlv0bBdbdOXzAE6VKPji3jlK4RBdX8r9eoS2twZVh1ZHiutBbyriLB3il_jbWITXf1MuY6yaRAyq1Dz7nUv5mbVhwMmB1SGV89ti0rfHAZWTbxETP-QQ/s400/Hollly+004.JPG" width="302" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Chapel</b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Mount Saint Joseph Hospital opened in Vancouver in 1946, but its history begins many years earlier, with the dream of a young Quebec girl named Délia Tetreault.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirquvmH-90s3VYarIWI1s2OoRHvlItgrIhRWiN6Z5jl6eMuUgs90m608tpSNv_ndDBsJNhiE51goW25bZaLTFkBCEhW4E4QrEkoeNTNTtOFfY9qAGie6BdnGwvAGv85hmxvzzrUeNkrAM/s1600/Hollly+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirquvmH-90s3VYarIWI1s2OoRHvlItgrIhRWiN6Z5jl6eMuUgs90m608tpSNv_ndDBsJNhiE51goW25bZaLTFkBCEhW4E4QrEkoeNTNTtOFfY9qAGie6BdnGwvAGv85hmxvzzrUeNkrAM/s400/Hollly+007.JPG" width="300" /></a><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Altar Area</span></b><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #414143; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"In 1902, Delia Tetreault of Marieville, Quebec, helped found the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception – the first missionary congregation for women in Canada. Nineteen years later, four Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception moved across Canada to Vancouver. In a home on Keefer Street, they provided health and education services primarily to the Asian community.</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #414143; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"By the time the Sisters marked the 25-year anniversary of their arrival in Vancouver, their work had outgrown three buildings, leading to the opening of Mount Saint Joseph Hospital (MSJ) in 1946. During their years in Vancouver, a total of 173 Sisters have served through health care, education, parish work and family counseling. Each and every Sister has been faithful to the teaching of Mother Délia.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt2RZ4s3HE1wQncvumFR17s1HOmhBCk1HWkaMr6PFr2SrvKC47JcZj18skmXna9vQvElRRHNMO5v5AgP4pfKRqwRpqG-5J4HaOnDeIUPBeZ3GOo3TbgMA1kQtXp04xoqxwoCyHTEML-RA/s1600/Hollly+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1135" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt2RZ4s3HE1wQncvumFR17s1HOmhBCk1HWkaMr6PFr2SrvKC47JcZj18skmXna9vQvElRRHNMO5v5AgP4pfKRqwRpqG-5J4HaOnDeIUPBeZ3GOo3TbgMA1kQtXp04xoqxwoCyHTEML-RA/s320/Hollly+005.JPG" width="226" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> (Right of Altar Statue)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXr0SZqrlKIS2wI6bXP8DQBVNkW1RWxocZ3LMb5sVZMF23dAZ3smmP6H1Aso3YiooyHmK8YQFoKTl25ZIbTsnStsFB5yG1uYjaUrnhLLlY5WF3MwA1rq-dJ7w235S6Z8LZJRTqsFXUoNA/s1600/Hollly+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="697" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXr0SZqrlKIS2wI6bXP8DQBVNkW1RWxocZ3LMb5sVZMF23dAZ3smmP6H1Aso3YiooyHmK8YQFoKTl25ZIbTsnStsFB5yG1uYjaUrnhLLlY5WF3MwA1rq-dJ7w235S6Z8LZJRTqsFXUoNA/s320/Hollly+006.JPG" width="279" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Left of Altar Statue</b></div>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #414143; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Today, MSJ is a 240-bed acute and extended care facility with an international reputation for excellence in providing for the needs of multi-faith and multi-ethnic communities. MSJ was founded on the principles of adaptability and responsiveness to ever-changing community needs, and continues to fulfill that mission. </b></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #414143; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ0rItV866FzLLYfsSQG6IKB95ub7enu_h2DPSCGRXUm9qMkm0kGSQ5LVQN7k5-2AoNMwZ8xf9GKeKEczYfobu0IzMz91Efy-lmyQvDCxDqdQmOdFSS4Bbo4lSFnwH5hl-PwVWVc7tz3o/s1600/Hollly+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ0rItV866FzLLYfsSQG6IKB95ub7enu_h2DPSCGRXUm9qMkm0kGSQ5LVQN7k5-2AoNMwZ8xf9GKeKEczYfobu0IzMz91Efy-lmyQvDCxDqdQmOdFSS4Bbo4lSFnwH5hl-PwVWVc7tz3o/s400/Hollly+010.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sanctuary Banner</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.07em; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">"A HISTORY OF MILESTONES</span></h2>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1946 — Mount Saint Joseph Hospital opens.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1948 – Mount Saint Joseph Hospital is recognized as a general hospital.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1956 – A 50-bed wing is added, thanks in part to the work of the newly created Ladies’ Auxiliary.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1960s – A dramatic drop in maternity admissions leads to a decision to close the maternity ward.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1965 – The chronic care department is converted into an Extended Care Unit, with state-of-the-art physiotherapy facilities.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1969 – A new three-bed Intensive Care Unit is created.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1970 – The Day Care Surgery Centre opens.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1979 – The Short Stay Assessment and Treatment Centre opens, establishing the first specialized geriatric service of its kind in BC.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1984 – Mount Saint Joseph Foundation is established.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1989 – The Lifeline Emergency Response System is introduced (Now the second-largest program of its kind in Canada, the system allows at-risk individuals to wear a button linking them to an emergency centre 24 hours a day, allowing them to safely remain in their own homes.)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1991 – An addition to the fourth floor paves the way for the new pediatric unit; two years later the hospital joins forces with BC’s Children’s Hospital to share expertise and to jointly operate MSJ’s expanded pediatric wing.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1992 – MSJ creates the positions of director of Multicultural Services and a coordinator of Interpreter Services." (Link 1.)</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwkOfv2V3a52DqfyZpjSgiU3BNhYWf9l6Unb9HFZes98aAoB3wDqCYcmAuLm2pasICyfhzlHIY7kjfYrxtU-I0pTaHm3UJzsGwiBD6DvZ8ymilQln3PjWUVn4M-PS6p2kWk0G2bkim3w/s1600/Hollly+009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwkOfv2V3a52DqfyZpjSgiU3BNhYWf9l6Unb9HFZes98aAoB3wDqCYcmAuLm2pasICyfhzlHIY7kjfYrxtU-I0pTaHm3UJzsGwiBD6DvZ8ymilQln3PjWUVn4M-PS6p2kWk0G2bkim3w/s400/Hollly+009.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sanctuary Side Windows</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>*********</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Photos: Taken in September 2019 by SW.</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 1: </b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://www.providencehealthcare.org/hospitals-residences/mount-saint-joseph-hospital/overview/history" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.providencehealthcare.org/hospitals-residences/mount-saint-joseph-hospital/overview/history</a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 2: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph</a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><u>Prayer</u></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div>
</div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-73032918353439323222019-11-03T06:00:00.002-08:002019-11-03T11:59:11.683-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPFseX2mWVUvdR7PTtxU8v_Q0wzlomkecsxn4D2sS9c7_-WBOIKMSZ4BqrGzIwlK3HrFGg6VfHO7PobGebA50SuXWG2qYXwE_jJ-xpB8Zhkj9hzQoLawFmjceFnop0CBGaGQyFK_s5Z0/s1600/Hollly+016.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPFseX2mWVUvdR7PTtxU8v_Q0wzlomkecsxn4D2sS9c7_-WBOIKMSZ4BqrGzIwlK3HrFGg6VfHO7PobGebA50SuXWG2qYXwE_jJ-xpB8Zhkj9hzQoLawFmjceFnop0CBGaGQyFK_s5Z0/s400/Hollly+016.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>St. Joseph (Foyer Statue)</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Mount Joseph Catholic Hospital</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Vancouver, B.C. Canada</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<div style="background-color: white; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Joseph (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" style="background: none;" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: <span dir="rtl" lang="he">יוֹסֵף</span>, <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Hebrew" style="background: none;" title="Romanization of Hebrew">romanized</a>: </small><i lang="he-Latn" title="Hebrew-language romanization">Yosef</i>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" style="background: none;" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">Ἰωσήφ</span>, <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek" style="background: none;" title="Romanization of Greek">romanized</a>: </small><i lang="el-Latn" title="Greek-language romanization">Ioséph</i>) is a figure in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_gospels" style="background: none;" title="Canonical gospels">canonical gospels</a> who was married to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_mother_of_Jesus" style="background: none;" title="Mary, mother of Jesus">Mary, Jesus' mother</a>, and was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" style="background: none;" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>' legal father.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph#cite_note-1" style="background: none;">[1]</a></sup> In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha" style="background: none;" title="Apocrypha">Apocrypha</a>, Joseph was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_of_Jesus" style="background: none;" title="Brothers of Jesus">the father</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James,_brother_of_Jesus" style="background: none;" title="James, brother of Jesus">James</a>, Joses, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_(brother_of_Jesus)" style="background: none;" title="Jude (brother of Jesus)">Jude</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(brother_of_Jesus)" style="background: none;" title="Simon (brother of Jesus)">Simon</a>, and at least two daughters. According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphanius_of_Salamis" style="background: none;" title="Epiphanius of Salamis">Epiphanius</a> and the apocryphal <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Joseph_the_Carpenter" style="background: none;" title="History of Joseph the Carpenter">History of Joseph the Carpenter</a></i>, these children were from a marriage which predated the one with Mary, a belief that is accepted by some select Christian denominations. Perspectives on Joseph as a historical figure are distinguished from a theological reading of the Gospel texts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph#cite_note-2" style="background: none;">[2]</a></sup></b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" style="background: none;" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" style="background: none;" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodox Church</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Church" style="background: none;" title="Oriental Orthodox Church">Oriental Orthodox Church</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicanism" style="background: none;" title="Anglicanism">Anglicanism</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheranism" style="background: none;" title="Lutheranism">Lutheranism</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph#cite_note-3" style="background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph#cite_note-4" style="background: none;">[4]</a></sup> In both Catholic and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant" style="background: none;" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> traditions, Joseph is regarded as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patron_saint" style="background: none;" title="Patron saint">patron saint</a> of workers and is associated with various <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_day" style="background: none;" title="Feast day">feast days</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_IX" style="background: none;" title="Pope Pius IX">Pope Pius IX</a> declared him to be both the patron and the protector of the Catholic Church, in addition to his patronages of the sick and of a happy death, due to the belief that he died in the presence of Jesus and Mary. In popular piety, Joseph is regarded as a model for fathers and has also become patron of various dioceses and places.(Link 2)</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQMAuK-YS1di5q_UHQdGBIi-fmlv0bBdbdOXzAE6VKPji3jlK4RBdX8r9eoS2twZVh1ZHiutBbyriLB3il_jbWITXf1MuY6yaRAyq1Dz7nUv5mbVhwMmB1SGV89ti0rfHAZWTbxETP-QQ/s1600/Hollly+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1212" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQMAuK-YS1di5q_UHQdGBIi-fmlv0bBdbdOXzAE6VKPji3jlK4RBdX8r9eoS2twZVh1ZHiutBbyriLB3il_jbWITXf1MuY6yaRAyq1Dz7nUv5mbVhwMmB1SGV89ti0rfHAZWTbxETP-QQ/s400/Hollly+004.JPG" width="302" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Chapel</b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Mount Saint Joseph Hospital opened in Vancouver in 1946, but its history begins many years earlier, with the dream of a young Quebec girl named Délia Tetreault.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirquvmH-90s3VYarIWI1s2OoRHvlItgrIhRWiN6Z5jl6eMuUgs90m608tpSNv_ndDBsJNhiE51goW25bZaLTFkBCEhW4E4QrEkoeNTNTtOFfY9qAGie6BdnGwvAGv85hmxvzzrUeNkrAM/s1600/Hollly+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirquvmH-90s3VYarIWI1s2OoRHvlItgrIhRWiN6Z5jl6eMuUgs90m608tpSNv_ndDBsJNhiE51goW25bZaLTFkBCEhW4E4QrEkoeNTNTtOFfY9qAGie6BdnGwvAGv85hmxvzzrUeNkrAM/s400/Hollly+007.JPG" width="300" /></a><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Altar Area</span></b><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #414143; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"In 1902, Delia Tetreault of Marieville, Quebec, helped found the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception – the first missionary congregation for women in Canada. Nineteen years later, four Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception moved across Canada to Vancouver. In a home on Keefer Street, they provided health and education services primarily to the Asian community.</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #414143; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"By the time the Sisters marked the 25-year anniversary of their arrival in Vancouver, their work had outgrown three buildings, leading to the opening of Mount Saint Joseph Hospital (MSJ) in 1946. During their years in Vancouver, a total of 173 Sisters have served through health care, education, parish work and family counseling. Each and every Sister has been faithful to the teaching of Mother Délia.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt2RZ4s3HE1wQncvumFR17s1HOmhBCk1HWkaMr6PFr2SrvKC47JcZj18skmXna9vQvElRRHNMO5v5AgP4pfKRqwRpqG-5J4HaOnDeIUPBeZ3GOo3TbgMA1kQtXp04xoqxwoCyHTEML-RA/s1600/Hollly+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1135" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt2RZ4s3HE1wQncvumFR17s1HOmhBCk1HWkaMr6PFr2SrvKC47JcZj18skmXna9vQvElRRHNMO5v5AgP4pfKRqwRpqG-5J4HaOnDeIUPBeZ3GOo3TbgMA1kQtXp04xoqxwoCyHTEML-RA/s320/Hollly+005.JPG" width="226" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> (Right of Altar Statue)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXr0SZqrlKIS2wI6bXP8DQBVNkW1RWxocZ3LMb5sVZMF23dAZ3smmP6H1Aso3YiooyHmK8YQFoKTl25ZIbTsnStsFB5yG1uYjaUrnhLLlY5WF3MwA1rq-dJ7w235S6Z8LZJRTqsFXUoNA/s1600/Hollly+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="697" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXr0SZqrlKIS2wI6bXP8DQBVNkW1RWxocZ3LMb5sVZMF23dAZ3smmP6H1Aso3YiooyHmK8YQFoKTl25ZIbTsnStsFB5yG1uYjaUrnhLLlY5WF3MwA1rq-dJ7w235S6Z8LZJRTqsFXUoNA/s320/Hollly+006.JPG" width="279" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Left of Altar Statue</b></div>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #414143; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Today, MSJ is a 240-bed acute and extended care facility with an international reputation for excellence in providing for the needs of multi-faith and multi-ethnic communities. MSJ was founded on the principles of adaptability and responsiveness to ever-changing community needs, and continues to fulfill that mission. </b></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #414143; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ0rItV866FzLLYfsSQG6IKB95ub7enu_h2DPSCGRXUm9qMkm0kGSQ5LVQN7k5-2AoNMwZ8xf9GKeKEczYfobu0IzMz91Efy-lmyQvDCxDqdQmOdFSS4Bbo4lSFnwH5hl-PwVWVc7tz3o/s1600/Hollly+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ0rItV866FzLLYfsSQG6IKB95ub7enu_h2DPSCGRXUm9qMkm0kGSQ5LVQN7k5-2AoNMwZ8xf9GKeKEczYfobu0IzMz91Efy-lmyQvDCxDqdQmOdFSS4Bbo4lSFnwH5hl-PwVWVc7tz3o/s400/Hollly+010.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sanctuary Banner</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.07em; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">"A HISTORY OF MILESTONES</span></h2>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1946 — Mount Saint Joseph Hospital opens.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1948 – Mount Saint Joseph Hospital is recognized as a general hospital.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1956 – A 50-bed wing is added, thanks in part to the work of the newly created Ladies’ Auxiliary.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1960s – A dramatic drop in maternity admissions leads to a decision to close the maternity ward.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1965 – The chronic care department is converted into an Extended Care Unit, with state-of-the-art physiotherapy facilities.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1969 – A new three-bed Intensive Care Unit is created.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1970 – The Day Care Surgery Centre opens.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1979 – The Short Stay Assessment and Treatment Centre opens, establishing the first specialized geriatric service of its kind in BC.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1984 – Mount Saint Joseph Foundation is established.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1989 – The Lifeline Emergency Response System is introduced (Now the second-largest program of its kind in Canada, the system allows at-risk individuals to wear a button linking them to an emergency centre 24 hours a day, allowing them to safely remain in their own homes.)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1991 – An addition to the fourth floor paves the way for the new pediatric unit; two years later the hospital joins forces with BC’s Children’s Hospital to share expertise and to jointly operate MSJ’s expanded pediatric wing.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1992 – MSJ creates the positions of director of Multicultural Services and a coordinator of Interpreter Services." (Link 1.)</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwkOfv2V3a52DqfyZpjSgiU3BNhYWf9l6Unb9HFZes98aAoB3wDqCYcmAuLm2pasICyfhzlHIY7kjfYrxtU-I0pTaHm3UJzsGwiBD6DvZ8ymilQln3PjWUVn4M-PS6p2kWk0G2bkim3w/s1600/Hollly+009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwkOfv2V3a52DqfyZpjSgiU3BNhYWf9l6Unb9HFZes98aAoB3wDqCYcmAuLm2pasICyfhzlHIY7kjfYrxtU-I0pTaHm3UJzsGwiBD6DvZ8ymilQln3PjWUVn4M-PS6p2kWk0G2bkim3w/s400/Hollly+009.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sanctuary Side Windows</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>*********</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Photos: Taken in September 2019 by SW.</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 1: </b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://www.providencehealthcare.org/hospitals-residences/mount-saint-joseph-hospital/overview/history" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.providencehealthcare.org/hospitals-residences/mount-saint-joseph-hospital/overview/history</a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 2: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph</a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><u>Prayer</u></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div>
</div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-46815680583439011372019-11-03T06:00:00.001-08:002019-11-03T11:57:41.776-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPFseX2mWVUvdR7PTtxU8v_Q0wzlomkecsxn4D2sS9c7_-WBOIKMSZ4BqrGzIwlK3HrFGg6VfHO7PobGebA50SuXWG2qYXwE_jJ-xpB8Zhkj9hzQoLawFmjceFnop0CBGaGQyFK_s5Z0/s1600/Hollly+016.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPFseX2mWVUvdR7PTtxU8v_Q0wzlomkecsxn4D2sS9c7_-WBOIKMSZ4BqrGzIwlK3HrFGg6VfHO7PobGebA50SuXWG2qYXwE_jJ-xpB8Zhkj9hzQoLawFmjceFnop0CBGaGQyFK_s5Z0/s400/Hollly+016.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>St. Joseph (Foyer Statue)</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Mount Joseph Catholic Hospital</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Vancouver, B.C. Canada</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<br />
<div style="background-color: white; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Joseph (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" style="background: none;" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: <span dir="rtl" lang="he">יוֹסֵף</span>, <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Hebrew" style="background: none;" title="Romanization of Hebrew">romanized</a>: </small><i lang="he-Latn" title="Hebrew-language romanization">Yosef</i>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" style="background: none;" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">Ἰωσήφ</span>, <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek" style="background: none;" title="Romanization of Greek">romanized</a>: </small><i lang="el-Latn" title="Greek-language romanization">Ioséph</i>) is a figure in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_gospels" style="background: none;" title="Canonical gospels">canonical gospels</a> who was married to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_mother_of_Jesus" style="background: none;" title="Mary, mother of Jesus">Mary, Jesus' mother</a>, and was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" style="background: none;" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>' legal father.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph#cite_note-1" style="background: none;">[1]</a></sup> In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha" style="background: none;" title="Apocrypha">Apocrypha</a>, Joseph was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_of_Jesus" style="background: none;" title="Brothers of Jesus">the father</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James,_brother_of_Jesus" style="background: none;" title="James, brother of Jesus">James</a>, Joses, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_(brother_of_Jesus)" style="background: none;" title="Jude (brother of Jesus)">Jude</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(brother_of_Jesus)" style="background: none;" title="Simon (brother of Jesus)">Simon</a>, and at least two daughters. According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphanius_of_Salamis" style="background: none;" title="Epiphanius of Salamis">Epiphanius</a> and the apocryphal <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Joseph_the_Carpenter" style="background: none;" title="History of Joseph the Carpenter">History of Joseph the Carpenter</a></i>, these children were from a marriage which predated the one with Mary, a belief that is accepted by some select Christian denominations. Perspectives on Joseph as a historical figure are distinguished from a theological reading of the Gospel texts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph#cite_note-2" style="background: none;">[2]</a></sup></b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" style="background: none;" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" style="background: none;" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodox Church</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Church" style="background: none;" title="Oriental Orthodox Church">Oriental Orthodox Church</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicanism" style="background: none;" title="Anglicanism">Anglicanism</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheranism" style="background: none;" title="Lutheranism">Lutheranism</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph#cite_note-3" style="background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph#cite_note-4" style="background: none;">[4]</a></sup> In both Catholic and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant" style="background: none;" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> traditions, Joseph is regarded as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patron_saint" style="background: none;" title="Patron saint">patron saint</a> of workers and is associated with various <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_day" style="background: none;" title="Feast day">feast days</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_IX" style="background: none;" title="Pope Pius IX">Pope Pius IX</a> declared him to be both the patron and the protector of the Catholic Church, in addition to his patronages of the sick and of a happy death, due to the belief that he died in the presence of Jesus and Mary. In popular piety, Joseph is regarded as a model for fathers and has also become patron of various dioceses and places.(Link 2)</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQMAuK-YS1di5q_UHQdGBIi-fmlv0bBdbdOXzAE6VKPji3jlK4RBdX8r9eoS2twZVh1ZHiutBbyriLB3il_jbWITXf1MuY6yaRAyq1Dz7nUv5mbVhwMmB1SGV89ti0rfHAZWTbxETP-QQ/s1600/Hollly+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1212" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQMAuK-YS1di5q_UHQdGBIi-fmlv0bBdbdOXzAE6VKPji3jlK4RBdX8r9eoS2twZVh1ZHiutBbyriLB3il_jbWITXf1MuY6yaRAyq1Dz7nUv5mbVhwMmB1SGV89ti0rfHAZWTbxETP-QQ/s400/Hollly+004.JPG" width="302" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Chapel</b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Mount Saint Joseph Hospital opened in Vancouver in 1946, but its history begins many years earlier, with the dream of a young Quebec girl named Délia Tetreault.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirquvmH-90s3VYarIWI1s2OoRHvlItgrIhRWiN6Z5jl6eMuUgs90m608tpSNv_ndDBsJNhiE51goW25bZaLTFkBCEhW4E4QrEkoeNTNTtOFfY9qAGie6BdnGwvAGv85hmxvzzrUeNkrAM/s1600/Hollly+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirquvmH-90s3VYarIWI1s2OoRHvlItgrIhRWiN6Z5jl6eMuUgs90m608tpSNv_ndDBsJNhiE51goW25bZaLTFkBCEhW4E4QrEkoeNTNTtOFfY9qAGie6BdnGwvAGv85hmxvzzrUeNkrAM/s400/Hollly+007.JPG" width="300" /></a><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Altar Area</span></b><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #414143; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"In 1902, Delia Tetreault of Marieville, Quebec, helped found the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception – the first missionary congregation for women in Canada. Nineteen years later, four Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception moved across Canada to Vancouver. In a home on Keefer Street, they provided health and education services primarily to the Asian community.</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #414143; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"By the time the Sisters marked the 25-year anniversary of their arrival in Vancouver, their work had outgrown three buildings, leading to the opening of Mount Saint Joseph Hospital (MSJ) in 1946. During their years in Vancouver, a total of 173 Sisters have served through health care, education, parish work and family counseling. Each and every Sister has been faithful to the teaching of Mother Délia.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt2RZ4s3HE1wQncvumFR17s1HOmhBCk1HWkaMr6PFr2SrvKC47JcZj18skmXna9vQvElRRHNMO5v5AgP4pfKRqwRpqG-5J4HaOnDeIUPBeZ3GOo3TbgMA1kQtXp04xoqxwoCyHTEML-RA/s1600/Hollly+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1135" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt2RZ4s3HE1wQncvumFR17s1HOmhBCk1HWkaMr6PFr2SrvKC47JcZj18skmXna9vQvElRRHNMO5v5AgP4pfKRqwRpqG-5J4HaOnDeIUPBeZ3GOo3TbgMA1kQtXp04xoqxwoCyHTEML-RA/s320/Hollly+005.JPG" width="226" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> (Right of Altar Statue)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXr0SZqrlKIS2wI6bXP8DQBVNkW1RWxocZ3LMb5sVZMF23dAZ3smmP6H1Aso3YiooyHmK8YQFoKTl25ZIbTsnStsFB5yG1uYjaUrnhLLlY5WF3MwA1rq-dJ7w235S6Z8LZJRTqsFXUoNA/s1600/Hollly+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="697" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXr0SZqrlKIS2wI6bXP8DQBVNkW1RWxocZ3LMb5sVZMF23dAZ3smmP6H1Aso3YiooyHmK8YQFoKTl25ZIbTsnStsFB5yG1uYjaUrnhLLlY5WF3MwA1rq-dJ7w235S6Z8LZJRTqsFXUoNA/s320/Hollly+006.JPG" width="279" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Left of Altar Statue</b></div>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #414143; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Today, MSJ is a 240-bed acute and extended care facility with an international reputation for excellence in providing for the needs of multi-faith and multi-ethnic communities. MSJ was founded on the principles of adaptability and responsiveness to ever-changing community needs, and continues to fulfill that mission. </b></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #414143; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ0rItV866FzLLYfsSQG6IKB95ub7enu_h2DPSCGRXUm9qMkm0kGSQ5LVQN7k5-2AoNMwZ8xf9GKeKEczYfobu0IzMz91Efy-lmyQvDCxDqdQmOdFSS4Bbo4lSFnwH5hl-PwVWVc7tz3o/s1600/Hollly+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ0rItV866FzLLYfsSQG6IKB95ub7enu_h2DPSCGRXUm9qMkm0kGSQ5LVQN7k5-2AoNMwZ8xf9GKeKEczYfobu0IzMz91Efy-lmyQvDCxDqdQmOdFSS4Bbo4lSFnwH5hl-PwVWVc7tz3o/s400/Hollly+010.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sanctuary Banner</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.07em; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">"A HISTORY OF MILESTONES</span></h2>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1946 — Mount Saint Joseph Hospital opens.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1948 – Mount Saint Joseph Hospital is recognized as a general hospital.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1956 – A 50-bed wing is added, thanks in part to the work of the newly created Ladies’ Auxiliary.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1960s – A dramatic drop in maternity admissions leads to a decision to close the maternity ward.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1965 – The chronic care department is converted into an Extended Care Unit, with state-of-the-art physiotherapy facilities.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1969 – A new three-bed Intensive Care Unit is created.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1970 – The Day Care Surgery Centre opens.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1979 – The Short Stay Assessment and Treatment Centre opens, establishing the first specialized geriatric service of its kind in BC.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1984 – Mount Saint Joseph Foundation is established.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1989 – The Lifeline Emergency Response System is introduced (Now the second-largest program of its kind in Canada, the system allows at-risk individuals to wear a button linking them to an emergency centre 24 hours a day, allowing them to safely remain in their own homes.)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1991 – An addition to the fourth floor paves the way for the new pediatric unit; two years later the hospital joins forces with BC’s Children’s Hospital to share expertise and to jointly operate MSJ’s expanded pediatric wing.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1992 – MSJ creates the positions of director of Multicultural Services and a coordinator of Interpreter Services." (Link 1.)</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwkOfv2V3a52DqfyZpjSgiU3BNhYWf9l6Unb9HFZes98aAoB3wDqCYcmAuLm2pasICyfhzlHIY7kjfYrxtU-I0pTaHm3UJzsGwiBD6DvZ8ymilQln3PjWUVn4M-PS6p2kWk0G2bkim3w/s1600/Hollly+009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwkOfv2V3a52DqfyZpjSgiU3BNhYWf9l6Unb9HFZes98aAoB3wDqCYcmAuLm2pasICyfhzlHIY7kjfYrxtU-I0pTaHm3UJzsGwiBD6DvZ8ymilQln3PjWUVn4M-PS6p2kWk0G2bkim3w/s400/Hollly+009.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sanctuary Side Windows</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>*********</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Photos: Taken in September 2019 by SW.</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 1: </b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://www.providencehealthcare.org/hospitals-residences/mount-saint-joseph-hospital/overview/history" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.providencehealthcare.org/hospitals-residences/mount-saint-joseph-hospital/overview/history</a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 2: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph</a></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><u>Prayer</u></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-8265710483442016182019-11-03T06:00:00.000-08:002019-12-21T09:51:40.576-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEgRhKgn8zhx1GIZLzPznb4pUjcecNTh44S5BthvbkCVfvn6A_E_38O-B6FPwvQG1l1FitTTZyeK0M0QtN6e9vAE_O-diRRVKB5nTmV-19TLBYA5ZKnJRrGWSvzUDBGx1zVOHGNuZMtx8/s1600/Santa+Anna+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1302" data-original-width="1600" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEgRhKgn8zhx1GIZLzPznb4pUjcecNTh44S5BthvbkCVfvn6A_E_38O-B6FPwvQG1l1FitTTZyeK0M0QtN6e9vAE_O-diRRVKB5nTmV-19TLBYA5ZKnJRrGWSvzUDBGx1zVOHGNuZMtx8/s400/Santa+Anna+2.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Santa Anna Church</b></span></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Santa Anna Church</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Alcudia, Mallorca</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Location_map_Majorca.png" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.6px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Alcúdia is located in Majorca"><img alt="Alcúdia is located in Majorca" data-file-height="715" data-file-width="699" height="400" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Location_map_Majorca.png/250px-Location_map_Majorca.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Location_map_Majorca.png/375px-Location_map_Majorca.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Location_map_Majorca.png/500px-Location_map_Majorca.png 2x" style="border: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; vertical-align: middle;" width="390" /></a></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: 700;">Map (Link 1.)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"Alcúdia</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> (</span><small style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Catalan pronunciation: </small><span class="IPA" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Catalan" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none !important;" title="Help:IPA/Catalan">[əlˈkuðiə]</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">) is a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipality" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Municipality">municipality</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and township of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Spain">Spanish</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_communities_of_Spain" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Autonomous communities of Spain">autonomous community</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balearic_Islands" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Balearic Islands">Balearic Islands</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. It is the main </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Tourism">tourist centre</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> in the North of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorca" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Majorca">Majorca</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> on the eastern coast. It is a large resort popular with families. Most of the hotels are located in Port d'Alcúdia and Platja d'Alcúdia along the 14 km long beach that stretches all the way to Can Picafort. In Alcúdia the old town is well preserved with houses dating back to the 13th century. The old town is surrounded by a medieval wall.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></b></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLATwXtNg_BUoOMWDbv-l9v3BhM0RaCxGucteSl0GHR3uGWLZzyLIr2eZOR0uMwPkx-D2YeGpIxP1xqQJwtMPc7VsSTZstytABpDRX6i2jXmDy5gG8QJHPpNMXL3ErBtRQXj5qbro6wRo/s1600/Palencia+downtown+b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLATwXtNg_BUoOMWDbv-l9v3BhM0RaCxGucteSl0GHR3uGWLZzyLIr2eZOR0uMwPkx-D2YeGpIxP1xqQJwtMPc7VsSTZstytABpDRX6i2jXmDy5gG8QJHPpNMXL3ErBtRQXj5qbro6wRo/s320/Palencia+downtown+b.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Town entrance and Wall </span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"The area where Alcúdia is located has been inhabited since the Bronze Age, but it is with the arrival of the Romans that the city makes its entry in the history books. The Romans used the beaches of Alcúdia bay when they captured the island in 123 B.C. Shortly after this the capital </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palma,_Majorca" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Palma, Majorca">Palma</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> was founded and then the city of Pollentia. From Pollentia it was possible to view both the bay of Pollenca and the bay of Alcúdia. "(Link 1.)</span></b></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIBI2fmVnc-upN1e0LBqTFT58v_uKhW7e0GvfVvPwt6QqeRdZ0JTBPyJcxzY9-8ta-AgWE9YQV7J-g8qHJ3WcqI4QbI15aoo_msSr4J3mpF1hUFjngVg_apo7VLILTibd0wg0UghKisFo/s1600/Santa+Anna.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1361" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIBI2fmVnc-upN1e0LBqTFT58v_uKhW7e0GvfVvPwt6QqeRdZ0JTBPyJcxzY9-8ta-AgWE9YQV7J-g8qHJ3WcqI4QbI15aoo_msSr4J3mpF1hUFjngVg_apo7VLILTibd0wg0UghKisFo/s320/Santa+Anna.JPG" width="272" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Church Plaque</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8seUX7y1helTDu-iANHoaey7gooUlnEZ336yn4a1DzV3Ihb-zqeSjAWeI4_z6BoxfxaCMal0s_EKNY5CoC5bgX4uacAfnCt9r9yulWrQsTVwxL3mzZNKRtj5k3kyJ1i6_ShEqgpc52H0/s1600/Palencia+downtown+4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="1600" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8seUX7y1helTDu-iANHoaey7gooUlnEZ336yn4a1DzV3Ihb-zqeSjAWeI4_z6BoxfxaCMal0s_EKNY5CoC5bgX4uacAfnCt9r9yulWrQsTVwxL3mzZNKRtj5k3kyJ1i6_ShEqgpc52H0/s640/Palencia+downtown+4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Church Plaque</span></b><br />
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPTFw4rxo7LZgiNyMDzb0CDoWJkgADbDnDncECHKBs05O8pbAu4oHilnzfn3YV7RiAtDDCCvhtKNG1V0f1zEhTmS_75g3X_mHSjsiECTaFf3782_U5YEjN80c2KHNql2ePyBlqMpWXOSQ/s1600/Santa+Anna+5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="1600" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPTFw4rxo7LZgiNyMDzb0CDoWJkgADbDnDncECHKBs05O8pbAu4oHilnzfn3YV7RiAtDDCCvhtKNG1V0f1zEhTmS_75g3X_mHSjsiECTaFf3782_U5YEjN80c2KHNql2ePyBlqMpWXOSQ/s400/Santa+Anna+5.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>From Church Booklet/Crypt</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHWFXzRnxMMlxlrM339ezEax1ifxEn2dqy-akMVoHfDvhz29ecuayge8Am1dt-NEFQs1-hTCGeWpb-KKY52qKUdIcdz-BmWf82fhiYpUm7MUZuDc_ppkBFXnhPTq32DjmMv2vZyWtpnv0/s1600/Santa+Anna+6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1314" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHWFXzRnxMMlxlrM339ezEax1ifxEn2dqy-akMVoHfDvhz29ecuayge8Am1dt-NEFQs1-hTCGeWpb-KKY52qKUdIcdz-BmWf82fhiYpUm7MUZuDc_ppkBFXnhPTq32DjmMv2vZyWtpnv0/s320/Santa+Anna+6.JPG" width="262" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Architectural Church Map</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
********<br />
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Photos: Taken in Dec. 2018 by RW with his iPhone while travelling by bike to </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Mallorca from his home in Switzerland.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Link 1: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alc%C3%BAdia">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alc%C3%BAdia</a></b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: left;">
<div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="text-align: center;"> <u>Prayer</u></b></span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alc%C3%BAdia">k</a></b><b></b></span></div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-54968815095304533862019-10-20T06:00:00.000-07:002019-12-21T09:47:10.529-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIBumSAs59oREsCULgM4CtHJrdK9TQSYMIcj_NEcPOpAs_iwD0loISU9ndXvraOyiL7ar5BjmFkZ5LzRZh5DDBjU-SDFdqMpQ77QsPxwg5YGP6kJYhYPr472Xo3dwg0sTGNnEaCWTPQ-s/s1600/Palma+6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIBumSAs59oREsCULgM4CtHJrdK9TQSYMIcj_NEcPOpAs_iwD0loISU9ndXvraOyiL7ar5BjmFkZ5LzRZh5DDBjU-SDFdqMpQ77QsPxwg5YGP6kJYhYPr472Xo3dwg0sTGNnEaCWTPQ-s/s400/Palma+6.JPG" width="300" /></a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Church Entrance</b></span></div>
<br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Churches of Palma</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Palma, Mallorca</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<br />
<div style="background-color: #f8f9fa; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.32px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 260px;">
<a class="irc_mil i3597" data-noload="" data-ved="2ahUKEwiT6OTN4cjfAhXwIDQIHYccAmQQjRx6BAgBEAU" href="http://www.onparou.com/Hotels-Baleares/Majorque/3-etoiles/Hotel-Club-Framissima-Palia-Sa-Coma-Playa-fiche-descriptif_2443.php" jsaction="mousedown:irc.rl;focus:irc.rl" rel="noopener" style="background-color: #222222; border: 0px; color: #660099; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><img alt="Image result for sa coma majorque" class="irc_mi" height="353" src="https://www.onparou.com/images-maps/31/map-2443.gif" style="background-color: white; background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)), -webkit-linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)); background-position: 0px 0px, 10px 10px; background-size: 21px 21px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65) 0px 5px 35px; margin-top: 0px;" width="374" /></a><br />
<div style="left: 227.85px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; position: absolute; top: 109.95px;">
<div style="left: -4px; line-height: 0; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; position: absolute; top: -4px;">
<img alt="Mallorca" data-file-height="64" data-file-width="64" height="8" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" style="border: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; vertical-align: middle;" title="Mallorca" width="8" /></div>
<div style="font-size: 11.088px; line-height: 12.1968px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; position: absolute; right: 5px; text-align: right; top: -0.75em; width: 6em;">
<div style="display: inline; float: right; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1px;">
Mallorca</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="background-color: #f8f9fa; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.32px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Palma (Link 2.)</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: #f8f9fa; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.32px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: #f8f9fa; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.32px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: #f8f9fa; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.32px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;">
"</div>
<div style="background-color: #f8f9fa; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Mallorca</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">is the largest island in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balearic_Islands" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Balearic Islands">Balearic Islands</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, which are part of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Spain">Spain</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and located in the Mediterranean. </span></b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: #f8f9fa; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;">
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The capital of Majorca, Palma, was founded as a Roman camp called Palmaria upon the remains of a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talaiot" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Talaiot">Talaiotic</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> settlement. The turbulent history of the city had it subject to several Vandal sackings during the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empire" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Fall of the Western Roman Empire">fall of the Western Roman Empire</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. It was later reconquered by the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantines</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, established by the Moors (who called it Medina Mayurqa), and finally occupied by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I_of_Aragon" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="James I of Aragon">James I of Aragon</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. In 1983, Palma became the capital of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_communities_of_Spain" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Autonomous communities of Spain">autonomous region</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balearic_Islands" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Balearic Islands">Balearic Islands</a></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div>
<div class="thumb tright" style="background-color: white; clear: right; color: #222222; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto;">
<div class="thumbinner" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); font-size: 13.16px; min-width: 100px; overflow: hidden; padding: 3px; text-align: center; width: 222px;">
<br />
<div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12.3704px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;">
<div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;">
<a class="internal" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cala_Llombards_04.jpg" style="background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 viewBox=%220 0 11 15%22 width=%2215%22 height=%2211%22%3E %3Cg id=%22magnify-clip%22 fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%23000%22%3E %3Cpath id=%22bigbox%22 d=%22M1.509 1.865h10.99v7.919h-10.99z%22/%3E %3Cpath id=%22smallbox%22 d=%22M-1.499 6.868h5.943v4.904h-5.943z%22/%3E %3C/g%3E %3C/svg%3E"); color: #0b0080; display: block; height: 11px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: 15px; user-select: none; white-space: nowrap; width: 15px;" title="Enlarge"></a></div>
<br /></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="background-color: #f8f9fa; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Since the 1950s, Majorca has become a major tourist destination, and the tourism business has become the main source of revenue for the island."</b></span></span><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (Link 1.)</span></span></b></div>
<div style="background-color: #f8f9fa; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp0_5umC7X_8vJkHhC-0JcFhsGVA-h90B831qNCqhwSN0G-f9Yx8-U-4byA-n0C_1hFmulamHwdPgVIp7AZ-6VXNW5rEsDz7lS0dnjyPuE8B2QSwyC_emMwDXS0NXE6jU5rZ4GOOmHQ38/s1600/Palma+7.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp0_5umC7X_8vJkHhC-0JcFhsGVA-h90B831qNCqhwSN0G-f9Yx8-U-4byA-n0C_1hFmulamHwdPgVIp7AZ-6VXNW5rEsDz7lS0dnjyPuE8B2QSwyC_emMwDXS0NXE6jU5rZ4GOOmHQ38/s400/Palma+7.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div style="background-color: #f8f9fa; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Altar</span></span></b><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: #f8f9fa; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheAzzJAW71ChBSqdG1v3XbNDFSoZGshOmAR6xmFPrYdZ2uTzjInXKnFeV2N55J4jcNQW2Agt-68DqOsP86I_pXDWO8SJ8i2OCAdx-OkoaK_GAovnRzkrXVjePnlXZAux6xkMEOq9rth3s/s1600/Palma+8.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheAzzJAW71ChBSqdG1v3XbNDFSoZGshOmAR6xmFPrYdZ2uTzjInXKnFeV2N55J4jcNQW2Agt-68DqOsP86I_pXDWO8SJ8i2OCAdx-OkoaK_GAovnRzkrXVjePnlXZAux6xkMEOq9rth3s/s400/Palma+8.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Rear of Church and Balcony</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiN4ppVflebkFobV0y19YMpJNgyiUjzI7Deu4UTO1TYDoMOivAumbDSC9lR2N5TIcOvZ5NPSHySv7rHDFv69CWhyphenhyphenCJYWXRZzTeyF3GEttkMLy3tIbn1TLaEE0bIe_Fr5Dk1XkrNnI-NjI/s1600/Palma+9.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="1600" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiN4ppVflebkFobV0y19YMpJNgyiUjzI7Deu4UTO1TYDoMOivAumbDSC9lR2N5TIcOvZ5NPSHySv7rHDFv69CWhyphenhyphenCJYWXRZzTeyF3GEttkMLy3tIbn1TLaEE0bIe_Fr5Dk1XkrNnI-NjI/s400/Palma+9.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Interior Altar</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPaVWMdzd5z8T-eYK8fn4zkyATDg_QxEk14yXCghwCXe9dc-y_89TUr5ZN8tG6tP2NYdqQR4KDg5l9iHFjPhVGv1zEjFCgJPkIQZj-ekS6viwiBb5fAAMLIKa62RvaF8piwaSXgAeyX4/s1600/Palma+10.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1260" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPaVWMdzd5z8T-eYK8fn4zkyATDg_QxEk14yXCghwCXe9dc-y_89TUr5ZN8tG6tP2NYdqQR4KDg5l9iHFjPhVGv1zEjFCgJPkIQZj-ekS6viwiBb5fAAMLIKa62RvaF8piwaSXgAeyX4/s400/Palma+10.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Church Plaque</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
******</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Photos: Taken with iPhone by RW while traveling in Mallorca from his home in</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Switzerland.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 1: </b></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallorca</b></span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="background-color: #f8f9fa; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;">
<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Link 2: <a href="http://www.onparou.com/Hotels-Baleares/Majorque/3-etoiles/Hotel-Club-Framissima-Palia-Sa-Coma-">http://www.onparou.com/Hotels-Baleares/Majorque/3-etoiles/Hotel-Club-Framissima-Palia-Sa-Coma-</a></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></b>
<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="text-align: center;"> <u>Prayer</u></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br />
<div style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="background-color: #f8f9fa; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;">
<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></b></div>
</div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903733335329433712.post-40001618597898379102019-10-06T06:00:00.000-07:002019-11-01T11:11:43.444-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5wjypxZL51dMpLIJcGJSHsCsgCIpxV5H_61Nm0Szm996nk9LAklUmyZoQV_A57AfwAviVeADQmOizpnOuimI36h6MVKbkrGimkAZkAFsGsNgJJo5rXzfowfTwqex8UUEo7mHk77Qf9bA/s1600/Palencia++1-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5wjypxZL51dMpLIJcGJSHsCsgCIpxV5H_61Nm0Szm996nk9LAklUmyZoQV_A57AfwAviVeADQmOizpnOuimI36h6MVKbkrGimkAZkAFsGsNgJJo5rXzfowfTwqex8UUEo7mHk77Qf9bA/s400/Palencia++1-1.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Calvary Church</b></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Calvary Church</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Pollenca, Mallorca</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Vth0pghSouWLYR6BTXdnthgTMNAoRz6msP4G59PDCyK83EJjaRCxCJrnBWf-tsr6rfr_0oM2RgdmsTPt8qq3RZoWHkFxdAtDZjK44hZhnwMhxdfZzXjvynlJ5jEfn7eNs5kTOtVzJmc/s1600/Palencia+2-2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1600" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Vth0pghSouWLYR6BTXdnthgTMNAoRz6msP4G59PDCyK83EJjaRCxCJrnBWf-tsr6rfr_0oM2RgdmsTPt8qq3RZoWHkFxdAtDZjK44hZhnwMhxdfZzXjvynlJ5jEfn7eNs5kTOtVzJmc/s320/Palencia+2-2.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Church Plaque</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVO8T40_NMYTYW1bl80JSEgWhwjC_XvdrWuGOAZ7QUEZ7zt0NF-Fkogi8xP5zPnMINV6hkFxJUvwnQhvF4ZBbadeAGR_ULA9vngKQQXG9aMDnMf0ppnl0ps7RuRiJHdZQNpEjV-4OlTwM/s1600/Palencia+2-3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVO8T40_NMYTYW1bl80JSEgWhwjC_XvdrWuGOAZ7QUEZ7zt0NF-Fkogi8xP5zPnMINV6hkFxJUvwnQhvF4ZBbadeAGR_ULA9vngKQQXG9aMDnMf0ppnl0ps7RuRiJHdZQNpEjV-4OlTwM/s400/Palencia+2-3.JPG" width="300" /></a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Church Altar</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbjCWiWb6543jqyp2siFPvASfjUK78x3K4hptTRjMRlo4pufgV19Di831swnDvJePJl5PYqe02hFP0XMn5tYkab_NDHatOwmFRKVRgwnUkySkENY-ItdATn9Gv9PslnvRYkftRxxe6HNw/s1600/Palencia+3-4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbjCWiWb6543jqyp2siFPvASfjUK78x3K4hptTRjMRlo4pufgV19Di831swnDvJePJl5PYqe02hFP0XMn5tYkab_NDHatOwmFRKVRgwnUkySkENY-ItdATn9Gv9PslnvRYkftRxxe6HNw/s400/Palencia+3-4.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Church Altar</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"Pollença</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> ...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> is a town and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipality" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Municipality">municipality</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> situated in the northern part of the island of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorca" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Majorca">Majorca</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, near </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_de_Formentor" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Cap de Formentor">Cap de Formentor</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alc%C3%BAdia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Alcúdia">Alcúdia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. It lies inland, about 6 km (4 mi) west of its port, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_de_Pollen%C3%A7a" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Port de Pollença">Port de Pollença</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></b></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip5XP20mqIeiDXBb52rvbV6-MTQgXf-pdPYGkqa2mlbDhI2jmM4b2tZI7jEkAl6Mfj55S18bm13RginsPFr40NqtZbrQEZ0KBsncFs_DTrUN_Z9OT8T741Q2bT8NW-LHdbrfcZKliiHgY/s1600/Mallorca+Palencia.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip5XP20mqIeiDXBb52rvbV6-MTQgXf-pdPYGkqa2mlbDhI2jmM4b2tZI7jEkAl6Mfj55S18bm13RginsPFr40NqtZbrQEZ0KBsncFs_DTrUN_Z9OT8T741Q2bT8NW-LHdbrfcZKliiHgY/s400/Mallorca+Palencia.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Steps to Calvary Church</span></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlbUJs1EFwuGqxz2dsK2W4KMWdy2xXgSJs1daBAP5EWTjxMQL-NXeLbb26v_41Q-JHxI-e7FqBJhRuwk-oU9zLx6MU9Af2JMrCEJw1GjAt1aczRpxDuAWisdTN2T8vGD_2tGsP2NcCBtI/s1600/Palencia+3-6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlbUJs1EFwuGqxz2dsK2W4KMWdy2xXgSJs1daBAP5EWTjxMQL-NXeLbb26v_41Q-JHxI-e7FqBJhRuwk-oU9zLx6MU9Af2JMrCEJw1GjAt1aczRpxDuAWisdTN2T8vGD_2tGsP2NcCBtI/s400/Palencia+3-6.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Steps to Calvary Church</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"One of the town's most distinctive features is the 365-step stairway north of the square; this leads up to a chapel on top of the hill known as Calvary. On </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Good Friday">Good Friday</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> this is the setting for the most dramatic parade of the year. First, on the road winding up the back of the hill, there is a reenactment of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stations_of_the_Cross" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Stations of the Cross">Stations of the Cross</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. This is followed by a mock crucifixion on top of the hill after which the figure of Christ is ceremonially removed from the Cross. There is a sombre, torchlit parading of the body of Christ through the town led by hundreds of people in cloaks, masks and pointed hats and done in total silence save for the slow beating of a drum. "(Link 1)</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJEMy02y5xdFxYhbKs66pM9rVv_pXmZu7Ad-BO5lF_Xi_s-9ZhQF9XTTdIn2lmGwXfW9PdatKv2Hc4h601yxqLk8uIxHqKsRm4vmrgtzRG0V9nmoqD6Qg74Nk0H75X2Cvxbntdi2Zdt9s/s1600/Mallorcaa+Palencia+6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJEMy02y5xdFxYhbKs66pM9rVv_pXmZu7Ad-BO5lF_Xi_s-9ZhQF9XTTdIn2lmGwXfW9PdatKv2Hc4h601yxqLk8uIxHqKsRm4vmrgtzRG0V9nmoqD6Qg74Nk0H75X2Cvxbntdi2Zdt9s/s400/Mallorcaa+Palencia+6.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: 700;">View of Pallenca from Calgary church</span></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Photos: Taken in Dec. 2018 by RW with his iPhone while travelling by bike to </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Mallorca from his home in Switzerland.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Link 1: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen%C3%A7a">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen%C3%A7a</a></b></span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="text-align: center;"> <u>Prayer</u></b></span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)</b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Suzanne Wilson "Demolition Mama"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03580313241127611768noreply@blogger.com0