St Francis Xavier, Green Bay WI. The last two credit goes to The Compass.
That altar is really distracting... obviously it has been wreck-o-vated from its original, but still a beautiful church nonetheless. Has anyone seen pictures of the original altar?
Update:
See photos of the original altar here.
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Here is a picture of the church before the wreckovations -
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullimage.asp?id=31751
Since I was at the Wisconsin History.org site I remembered some postcards that show the interior of the Chapel at the St. Joseph Orphan Home in Superior.
These will BLOW YOUR MIND when you see what people once built in a small chapel in an orphanage.
They might also bring tears to the eyes when you see what Catholics used to design for their churches and how far away from that ideal we have fallen.
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullimage.asp?id=53879
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullimage.asp?id=53888
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullimage.asp?id=53885
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullimage.asp?id=53883
Enjoy.
Here is a color postcard from Ebay that shows the altar IN COLOR. (You can enlarge it).
http://cgi.ebay.com/INTERIOR-ST-FRANCIS-XAVIER-CATHEDRAL-GREEN-BAY-WI-/200402758178?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ea8ef6a22
Oh, no. Not you, too!
There are a bunch of interesting things in that Cathedral, beginning with the tombs of the Bishops there.
Perhaps the most interesting item is in the anteroom found on the Epistle side (currently the main entrance.)
There is a statue of the BVM there, which was a gift from the Archbishop of the Diocese which sent Green Bay's first Bishop (and many of its priests.)
The statue--which is absolutely stunning, although not large--was sent as a gift because the Archbishop of that Diocese in Germany could not attend the 100th Anniversary celebration of the Green Bay Diocese.
He explained that he'd 'been suddenly called to another assignment in Rome' and simply could not re-schedule things conveniently.
His name?
Card. Jos. Ratzinger
By the way, the organ in that Cathedral was a gift, reportedly worth around $500K when it was given. It's too big for the church--except to us organist-types, of course.
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