St. Joseph, Fremont

FYI, I'm planning a visit to the shrine of Ven. Solanus Casey, in Detroit, sometime this week. Expect pictures.

Our Lady of Consolation, Carey

St. Joseph Cemetery, Fremont

Over in Cleveland ...

An exhibition of reliquaries, “Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe,” will be at the Cleveland Museum of Art through January 17, 2011.


A review of the exhibit HERE.


Cleveland Museum of Art website.






"Arm Reliquary of the Apostles," from about 1190, German.

Sorrowful Mother Shrine, Bellevue

Crucifix in memory of World War I.

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel.

Shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Shrine chapel.


Christ's Agony in the Garden.

Gong Show

Some time ago on this blog, we were wondering about an unusual object near the altar in old photos of Peru St. Alphonsus and Bascom St. Patrick. (See pictures HERE.)

Thanks to the online Benzinger Brothers catalog, we now know it is a gong, used similarly to the bells at consecration/elevation.

St. Wendelin, Fostoria

The former grade school, built in 1909.

Our Lady of Consolation, Carey

St. Wendelin Mausoleum, Fostoria

Celtic cross stone in the foreground marks the grave of John Quinn, collector and patron of Irish literature and modern art. His sister Clara was an Ursuline sister in Tiffin (Sister St. Paul).

Sorrowful Mother Shrine, Bellevue

Elsewhere

St. Michael's, in Cleveland, in a pre-1910 postcard.

St. Mary, Tiffin

(Saint to be identified...)