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To: Pio

Yes - the masterpiece of the Irish born architect who lived in Brooklyn, Patrick Christopher Keely was indeed Holy Cross Cathedral. He designed literally hundreds of churches, including Immaculate Conception - the nearby Jesuit church, which the Jesuits recently detroyed hte interior thereof.

But Holy Cross was recently "liturgized" by Cardinal Law a few years back. Sad. So Sad. It was never more beautiful then before that wreckovation, when it was in disrepair......but even falling plaster could not disguise its intrinsic beauty.

Keely's self proclaimed model for most of his churches was that they should resemble an ideal Catholic - modest and plain on the outside, but filled with the beauty and glory of Christ on the inside.


68 posted on 11/24/2004 5:15:29 PM PST by thor76 (Vade retro, Draco! Crux sacra sit mihi lux! St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: thor76; Pio

Is it me or is someone in particular bashing anyone in sight on this thread with no consequences from a moderator?


75 posted on 11/24/2004 5:24:48 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
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To: thor76

Thank you for that information. I haven't been in the Cathedral in over 30 years, having moved away from Boston.


244 posted on 11/28/2004 7:38:48 PM PST by jjmcgo
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