Sunday, October 13, 2024
St. Patrick Scaffolding Update
St. Joseph School Maumee
Friday, October 11, 2024
St. Joseph, Maumee Then vs. Now
Thursday, October 10, 2024
St. John the Evangelist, Delphos
Monday, October 7, 2024
Holy Rosary, East Toledo
Both the nun house and rectory are abandoned and closed.
The Story of St. Mary
The story of St. Mary in Toledo is an interesting one. The German parish at St. Francis de Sales was getting too large. So, in 1856, they built a new church and dedicated it to St. Mary. The church was located at the southern corner of what is now Cherry and Spielbusch, across from the Diocese headquarters. The church even had the largest room in Toledo being the sanctuary. That record would be one of many problems to occur. The church was so big, that maintenance and preservation were very difficult. In 1904, a new school was built on Page St. just south of the St. Vincent Mercy Hospital. This school had a chapel that would hold weekend Mass and lead more parishioners to go to the chapel for Mass instead of the Church. This all led to the Churches demolition in the early 1930s along with the school and chapel being closed later on.
90 years later, this leads to me trying to find the locations of these places.
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Scaffolding at St. Patrick
For almost a week, there has been scaffolding set up in front of St. Patrick on the Warehouse District. Facade work? I don't think so.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Something is missing. . . !
Where are Gesu's bells? For many years, there were 3 bells in that "tower". But now there are 3 empty squares. The bourdon bell stopped ringing years ago, then the high bell stopped ringing last month. That left the middle bell to control the Angelus. There are some hints as to why they are gone, like that crane in the bottom right corner. Also, the bells were oxidizing very badly and might be getting refurbished. As for how long, I have no idea
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
St. Joseph, Maumee After Mass
One day after Mass, I took photos of the areas behind the altar at St. Joseph, Maumee.
The server sacristy. You can see 1 of 3 thuribles that the Church uses hanging next to the door frame. That is not the one they use for this mass, however. On the left, you can see all 4 candles that the acolytes would process with. The cabinet on the right holds all of the server albs as well as the Master of Ceremonies' vestments. The left cabinet has vestments for the priests, but they do have another closet which stores the outer vestments.