St. Peter, Canton, Ohio

 

Obviously a little east of the Toledo Diocesan boundaries, but too impressive not to share.  Just as beautiful inside, too.

Parish website is HERE.

Most Pure Heart of Mary, Shelby

A beautiful church, I wasn't able to get inside for photos.  

 St. Paul

St. Peter

St. Joseph, Plymouth

I wasn't able to visit inside the church, but hope to sometime. 

Statue of St. Joseph in front.

August Novena at OLC Shrine

2012 marks 100 years of ministry for the Franciscan Friars at Our Lady of Consolation Shrine in Carey.  The preacher for the August Assumption novena will be Fr. Timothy Kulbicki, who has a doctorate in Ecclesiastical History from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and currently serves as Dean of the School of Theology at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, MD.  More information HERE.

St. Peter, Mansfield

Post card, uncertain of date.

Stained Glass at Providence Hospital, Sandusky

 

For some time, I've wanted to see the stained glass windows at the former Providence Hospital in Sandusky, now the south campus of Firelands Medical Center.  They are the work of Cleveland artist Frank Marchione, and are some of the most beautiful modern stained glass I've seen.  They were designed in the early 1960s.  More about Marchione HERE.

St. Frances Cabrini.

 St. Francis of Assisi.

 St. Anthony of Padua

 St. Jude

St. Therese of Liseux

 

 St. Anne with Mary as a child.

Light passing through the St. Michael window illuminates the brick wall.  There is also a St. Raphael window (the chapel was named for him), but the photo did not turn out.

Here you can see the full size of the windows -- they are nearly two floors tall.  The room is now a conference / education center instead of a chapel.

Thoughts on Beautiful Churches

"In no other aspect of our lives do we demand a reason for beauty or question its purpose. We accept and appreciate beautiful art, music, or a sunset for what it is and allow it to uplift us. For some reason beauty is not suspect except when found in the Church. Then it becomes a waste of money, gaudy excess, and idolatry. Suddenly we are expected to ban beauty in His own house when He Himself made us with this desire to create and appreciate beauty? How odd."

Read more on the topic from Katrina Fernandez and Elizabeth Scalia HERE

(Photo, main altar of Our Lady of Consolation Shrine in Carey.).

Knights of St. John

An interesting post about the Knights of St. John convention in Sandusky in 1910, over at the Sandusky History blog -- click HERE.

Ss. Peter & Paul, Sandusky

Uncertain of date, sometime in early 1900s.  You can see recent photos of the interior HERE.

Immaculate Conception, Bellevue

An interesting postcard, showing the location of the previous church at the rear of the school.  Uncertain of date; the school was built in the 1920s, and the new church was built in 1964.

Ss. Peter & Paul, South Toledo, 1917

Some photos from a 1917 "Souvenir of the Consecration and Golden Jubilee of Ss. Peter & Paul Church" program and booklet.  Currently home to mostly Hispanic parishioners, the parish began in 1866 as the second German congregation in Toledo (St. Mary's being the first).  The current church was consecrated in 1917.

  Interior of the church on the day of the Golden Jubilee.

 

See the list below for names of the parish "pioneers."

 

 The program has many more photos of priests, sisters, choirs, etc.

Bishop Fenwick's Close Call

 

Ohio's first bishop, Bishop Edward Fenwick, studied for the Dominican Order in Belgium in the late 1700s. He was imprisoned during the French Revolution:

His full biography is online -- click HERE.

St. John's Wort (with Blessed John Paul)

The yellow flowers of the herb St. John's Wort show up in the garden around the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, June 24, hence the name.  The sculpture of Pope John Paul II is a copy of a work by artist Timothy Schmalz -- his website is HERE.

Catholic Reading Circles, 1903 - 1904

A movement of Catholic reading circles and summer schools grew in the late 1800s and early 1900s, similar to the Chautauqua movement. The Champlain Educator / Mosher's Magazine served as a national publication, and groups in Findlay and Sandusky were listed in its directory:

 

You can read more about the history of the national Catholic Summer School HERE.

Photos Welcome

If you have photos you'd like to share of any churches in the Diocese, feel free to email me -- see contact information on the right.  Photos from the western and southern ends of the diocese would be especially welcome, as I don't travel often in those areas.  Thanks!

St. Gaspar del Bufalo, Marywood

Just FYI, there's a new German restaurant / pub a few miles away from St. Gaspar's, the Bierkeller.

Corpus Christi Procession in Tiffin

There's a fine photo gallery of Tiffin's Corpus Christi procession HERE.  Participants walked from St. Joseph's parish, through downtown, to St. Mary's parish, with several stops for prayer along the way.

Vandalism at Rosary Cathedral

An outdoor statue of Mary behind the Cathedral was damaged and broken off its base.  Details HERE.

St. Paul, Norwalk

 

Detail of the brickwork at the front of the church.

 

St. Vincent's Hospital, Toledo

 A post card from 1958.

A view from 1908.