St. John, Lima, Renovations

Click HERE to see some photos of the amazing renovation / restoration work at St. John the Evangelist church in Lima.  A fine effort by the parish.

Also, bells from a Toledo church are being added to the belfry at St. Rose in Lima.

St. John, Defiance

St. John, Delphos

An Interesting Mystery

Kevin Hammer has found a postcard showing a very impressive church. It's identified as Our Lady of Consolation, in Carey, and identifies Fr. John G. Mizer as the pastor. The card is of a type that would have been made, say between 1905 and 1915. Not much further, either way. Fr. Mizer was pastor at Carey for twenty-five years, but was pastor at St. John, in Lima, for four years before his death in 1919.
This raises some interesting questions. It obviously was never built at Carey. However, St. John's could well be a radically scaled down version of this design. HERE'S a picture. I don't know when St. John's was built, but it looks like about 1900 to 1940.
One wonders if this could have been meant for Carey, but reworked to build St. John's?

Fr. John Otto Bredieck

Father Bredieck wasn't just the first pastor of St. John's, in Delphos. He was also the founder of the town, which was settled by a group of his parishioners from Osnabruck, Germany. He was pastor from 1844 to 1858.

St. John, Delphos

A 1979 photograph by Mike Doughty.
St. John's has excellent windows.