Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Mission

New Riegel All Saints parishioner Dr. John Wood has just released a book, "Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Mission," with the theme, Be a Saint!  More info HERE.

St. Boniface, New Riegel 1890

Schoolchildren pose for a picture in front of St. Boniface church in New Riegel, in 1890.  The pastor and sister are of the Precious Blood order.  The church is now part of All Saints parish.

Precious Blood Sisters, New Riegel

A photo of a Jubilee celebration at the Precious Blood convent in New Riegel. Sister Euphemia Gosche (in the center) was marking 50 years as a sister with other sisters, family and friends. Not sure of exact date, sometime in the late 1940s.

Precious Blood Convent, New Riegel, 1894

Workers building the Precious Blood convent in New Riegel, 1894. Photo from the display at New Riegel Cafe.

Bernard Kokenge, Architect

An advertisement from a 1877 Wyandot County directory. Bernard Kokenge designed All Saints church in New Riegel, Transfiguration of the Lord parish in Upper Sandusky, and apparently St. Mary's in Defiance.
All Saints in New Riegel.

Ignace Schott

The mural of St. Boniface at All Saints parish in New Riegel is credited to Ignace (Ignatius) Schott and W. Hofstette of Detroit in 1877.

You can read an interesting biography of Schott here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignace_Schott

All Saints, New Riegel

Photographs by Shari Stowell

All Saints, New Riegel

All Saints, New Riegel

These are particularly good.

The Raising the Dead Award...

..... with a laurel wreath for reversing a wreckovation, goes to All Saints in New Riegel, for restoring the murals when they could easily have been forgiven for giving them up as a lost cause.

See what I mean?

All Saints, New Riegel

These photographs, from 1979, show the crucifix suspended from a very nice hanging canopy. It's too bad this would have blocked the view of one of the murals, since it was a good arrangement.

I'll never even remotely understand the reasoning for it, but, as wreckovations go, this one wasn't bad.

Photos from Mike Doughty.