St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church

For my Confirmation I choose St.Marguerite Bourgeoys. Marguerite was born on April 17, 1620. Marguerite had survived many difficulties in the twenty-six years she had been in wilderness of Canada. She had survived the Iroquois attacks, a fire that destroyed her village, and plagues on the ships that she took back and forth to France, but nothing could stop her from achieving her dreams. The only thing that threatened her hopes and dreams more than anything else was what her own bishop told her in 1679. He had told her that she had to join her Congregation of Notre Dame with its teaching sisters to a religious order of Ursulines that stayed in one place and were close together. She had been told to do this before. Marguerite had overcome

All along the church there where columns separating the side aisles from the main nave. These columns are only two or three meters tall with rounded arches in between and above there is a row of pilasters which only seem to be a few feet apart. Right before the ribbing of the ceiling actually starts, there are three stained glass murals on each side which are all different. These murals are huge, they are a couple meters tall and a meter and a half wide. The ceiling of the church is ribbed with a groined vault, this curvature in the ceiling makes the inside of the church feel gigantic. The crossing is elevated but only by three steps and there is a table, podium,and cross in the center of it. In the center of the apse, there are two baths, one small and the other large in which baptism takes place.

St Patricks Cathedral is the mother church of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne. It was named after St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. The church was officially opened in 1997, however the first mass took place in February 1858.

I was a Follower of Christ and I didn’t even know it. I was the last of three boys to two faithful Christian parents. My parents attended St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Akron, OH. I was baptized and confirmed by the same Bishop. Some of my earliest memories are of me standing in the pews with my parents and stacking the prayer books as if it were my own pulpit and I would pretend to be the priest giving the Sunday sermon. I didn’t know what he was talking about but I always thought that I would be like him one day. I was an acolyte and attended the youth programs regularly with my friends. I completed my studies to earn my God and Country award with the Boy Scouts.

The Church also “assumed the leadership in the temperance movement” (The Roman Catholic Church and Quebec - Readings - Quebec History). “Catholic unions were established for workers and farmers… they studied the social and economic problems in the light of Catholic social teachings.” (The Roman Catholic Church and Quebec - Readings - Quebec History). It was evident that the Church wielded a significant amount of power during this time period.

St. Paul's Presbyterian Church seeks to provide a safe and secure environment for the children

In this essay I intend to compare and contrast the Basilica of St. Sernin and Basilica of St Denis in France with references to how they differ structurally (as Romanesque and Gothic buildings respectively) followed by critical analysis of the advancements in architectural construction methods. The progression in architectural capability from Romanesque to Gothic led to a change in how religious architecture was approached spatially, with far greater emphasis on the use of light and a desire for greater height. To assess this transition one must contextualise the periods the respective basilicas were built in and the physical limitations as well as architectural preferences of the time. One must further assess why previously unfeasible technologies that now elevated the height of buildings and placed a greater emphasis for infiltration of light were required for religious reasons. This need for greater height and light exemplifies the relationship that people wanted between themselves and God in order to achieve a more fulfilled experience of their religion. This essay will attempt to consider and evaluate the dramatic change in the architectural style of Churches and Cathedrals and the transition from Romanesque to Gothic indicating the lasting impact these processes have left on history.

St. Francis of Assisi abandoned a life of luxury for a life devoted to Christianity after reportedly hearing the voice of God, who commanded him to rebuild the Christian church and live in poverty. He is the patron saint for ecologists. St. Francis was also the first person to receive the stigmata of Christ, the marks resembling the wounds of Jesus Christ suffered when he was crucified. After living a life devoted to God, Francis was canonized as a Saint just two years after his death on July 16, 1228, by his former protector, Pope Gregory IX.

For the architecture journal I visited the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in downtown Tampa. Before the current church was built, a wooden church called St. Louis Parish sat in its place. The decision to build the current church was formulated in 1897 from the realization that Tampa was growing and the St. Louis Parish needed additional space for mass. From this decision, construction began when the ground was broken for the building on 16th February 1898. Construction was then completed in 1905. Sacred Heart Church utilized the architectural style of Romanesque revival for its construction. In order to demonstrate the facets of the building that follow this style, it will first be necessary to discuss the style itself.

The bishop was also in charge of building two other churches, San Michele and Santa Maria, but “San Vitale is larger in scale than these two churches, designed as a centrally planned octagonal two-story congressional church” (Tronchin and Knight 130).The church features “two centric octagons. The dome covered inner octagon rises above the surrounding octagon to provide the interior with clerestory lighting” (Gardner and Kleiner B: 255). This octagon shape brings the parishioners to the center of the church, allowing them to become part of the service, which is not found in a traditional church. The dome is constructed on eight piers and arches which are surrounded by an ambulatory and a gallery. Much of the inside is marble and gold and the church walls have many windows to let the sun in to shine on this gold. “Light filtered through the alabaster-paned windows and plays over glittering mosaics and flowing marble” (Gardner 255) which shows the beauty and lavish pieces Justinian put into this construction, even though the outside is dull and made mostly of bricks. However, this becomes another difference concerning these two monuments. The dome of San Vitale shows the Roman influence, with a figure of Christ, marbles and glittering galleries and the Dome of the Rock features a more ordinary approach with geometric shapes and calligraphy as well as extraordinary colors used in Islamic

The Church of San Vitale located in Italy is an early Christian church completely made up of bricks, which was built and completed between 538-548. It has an octagonal plan, with a two-story ambulatory enclosing a central space. There is a narthex, or entrance porch attached to the west side of the building at an angle, while a small choir and chancel, or extended

I am Christian yet it was wonderful experience to visit Saint Marry church. Catholic engineering and workmanship utilizes visual images to upgrade the confidence. There are distinctive profound part that can lead one to the same God For instance, the gothic houses of God winding up toward paradise to help the reliable to remember their fate in the following scene — and not to get excessively agreeable in this natural one. A profound ordeal is an experience with something or somebody other than yourself that is not based upon material wonders To actually see the magnificence of Catholic love, you can visit the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama. The marble, the gold, the recolored glass, the light, the holy place, the sanctuary, and particularly the seven-foot-tall monstrance encompassed by gold and gems all draw

a) The current Our Lady of Victories, Catholic Church of Glenelg was built in place of a previous church in 1869. The present church was opened Sunday 20 November 1927 midday, built years after the settlement of the first Christian priests that arrived in Australia as convicts in 1800. They were encouraged to promote Christianity, encouraged to hold masses.

4-11 and 4-12)” also, a restored version of San Vitale’s interior converted the complexity and lightness. (164) The amazing design of the chapel was well orchestrated; insofar, transitioning from what used to be the Roman Empire to now the European Nation, western European churches was about to welcome the beginning of something great; hence, an introduction of the great dual-tower facades which continues from the 10th century to present day. The exterior entrance portal was superbly exquisite; not to mention the interior; especially, after it’s restoration which gains a geometric clarity, although, missing the subtle sophisticated look of the Byzantine. Despite the fact that, the chapel has dual-tower, it main units stood independently of each other; furthermore, making it simpler. Such can be seen from above the door where Charlemagne himself “could appear in a large frame arch and be seen by those gathered in the atrium in front of the chapel.” (164) His throne was made of marble and located directly behind the arch, making it convenient for him to peer down at the altar. The stained glasses, arch design, various styles and colors of the stones along with a steel looking door, make this chapel one to

Despite being relatively small in length and width, it is equal in height to many other cathedrals. The interior of Sainte-Chapelle’s upper chapel is notable amongst other religious edifices for its lightness, the chapel is seemingly bathed in light from the 15 near floor-to-ceiling stained glass windows which surround it. Louis constructed it as a chapel for the royal palace and to house precious relics. Such precious relics deserved to be sheltered in a special place. Hence, Saint Louis chose to have a church built inside the Royal Palace on Cité isle in order to emphasize the close relationship between the Holy Relics and the