Sorrowful Mother Shrine, Bellevue

There's a fine online gallery of photos of Sorrowful Mother Shrine by photographer Paul Csizmadia, with especially good views of the stained glass. You can see it HERE.

Providence Hospital, Sandusky

Above is an image of St. Raphael in stained glass, from 1962 when the St. Raphael chapel was being built in Sandusky's Providence Hospital. The stained glass was the work of Cleveland artist Frank Marchione. In 2001, Providence became part of Firelands Regional Medical Center. The chapel is now used as an education center, but the stained glass remains.

A photo of the chapel while still in use.

See an example of Frank Marchione's sculpture HERE.

More Providence Hospital history HERE.

St. Joseph, Tiffin

Tiffin St. Joseph will have a Corpus Christi procession on Thursday, June 23, 2011 after the 7 pm Mass.

Rosary Cathedral

Catholic Baseball Team in Maumee

Ned Skeldon Stadium, former home of the Toledo Mud Hens, now serves as the home stadium of the Lake Erie Monarchs. The Monarchs are a ministry of Catholic Baseball Players for Christ; the team plays in the Lake Erie Summer Collegiate League. Schedule and other information HERE.

SS Peter & Paul, Sandusky

St. Rose, Perrysburg

A video tour from the Catholic Chronicle.

Sr. Jane Mary Sorosiak slide show

Earlier this year, Sylvania Franciscan Sister Jane Mary Sorosiak gave a presentation at Lourdes College about her artwork and teaching. You can view the slide show HERE -- it shows the process of creating the large ceramic mosaics, and her artwork throughout the diocese and beyond.

John Bernat

John (Janos) Bernat, Hungarian native whose work includes the murals at St. Peter in Mansfield, is the focus of an exhibit at the museum of Dombovar City, Hungary. The exhibit will take place from June 18 to October 2, 2011. You can read previous posts about Bernat HERE.

Ohio Postcard Collection

The Columbus Metropolitan Library has a great collection of digitized post cards of Ohio. If you click HERE and search for "Catholic," you'll see an assortment of churches.

Two noteworthy photos: the church and Precious Blood convent at Frank, and the previous Ss. Peter & Paul church at Ottawa.

Holy Angels, Sandusky

Sorry about the utility poles ...

A snippet of Holy Angels records from 1841, with the signature of Fr. Joseph P. Machebeuf, later the first bishop of Denver.

St. Mary of Perpetual Help, Chicago

http://www.stmaryofperpetualhelp.com/p/photos.html


Down the street from me in Bridgeport, Chicago. I'll get there eventually.

Festival Time

There's an interactive map and schedule of festivals throughout the Diocese - click HERE.

St. Mary, Sandusky

SS Peter & Paul School, Sandusky

Built in 1906.



Now in use as the Faith Formation center.

Parish Records Online

Just learned that many parish records from the Diocese of Toledo are available online through Family Search, the genealogy database. It takes a little while to load images, but worth the wait.

Click HERE to get the first screen.

St. Anthony Cemetery, Milan

Crucifixion monument--the cross is the work of French native John Baptiste Verment, sculptor and architect from Massillon, Ohio. Not sure if the statues of Mary and St. John were added later.

Inscriptions on each side of the monument. Verment's name is under the "1884."

More of his work HERE.

Tomb of Fr. Leonard Lentsch, to the left of the Crucifixion monument. From a quick Google search, it appears he was a Redemptorist priest and worked in Pennsylvania parishes as well.

Gravestone of Catherine Cozzie.

Mausoleum of Roberts, Taylor, Fries family.

St. Peter, Mansfield Centennial

St. Peter's parish in Mansfield celebrated the centennial of their church with a parade -- looks like they avoided the monsoons. View a slideshow HERE.

St. Paul, Norwalk

St. Peter, Archbold

Completed in 1907. According to the parish history HERE, W. Dowling of Toledo was the architect. (He is also credited with St. Mary's in Tiffin.)