Holy Cross Columbus

The first Catholic church in Columbus Ohio was St. Remigius in the 1830s. A new larger church was in use January 1848, this one. This is the oldest church building in Columbus. The parish was renamed Holy Cross. There is a statue of Jesus, and at the base are the words "Follow me".  The local bishop suppressed the parish in April of last year, the church is still open to the faithful. The parish was absorbed by the cathedral. American bishops see parishes as corporate franchises to administer as the wish. Canon law sees them as Can. 120 §1. A juridic person is perpetual by its nature. Bishops often act as autocrats with full immunity from law. And Catholics who are clericalists, as many bishops are, do not appreciate any such criticism of such authoritarian behaviour, unless of course it interferes with them directly. That is what is known as hypocrisy. Speaking of hypocrisy, the building across the street is the Ohio Republican Party, it says its for sale. It was sold a long time ago.

Nephew and hound walking.

The narthex with statues of two favorite saints, St. Elisabeth of Hungary and Thuringia, and St. Anthony of Padua and Lisbon. Usually the other favorite non-Marian saint is St. Therese of Lisieux, she has a statue and a window inside. Before the visible picture is script on tile floor, reading Holy Cross Church. The church is beautiful, and has several statues, a beautiful main altar, and frescoes; but i am interested in windows a little moreso.

The church has Zettler windows from Munich, They waited at a dock in Germany for the First World War to end. They were excellent choices for a church. Some of the scenes are not that often seen, but hey are of important moments. The one supra is Jesus washing the feet of Peter on Holy Thursday.

This window is above the door that leads out to the narthex (and into the nave). it is the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Underneath, in chalk, is the inscription from this year's Feast of the Epiphany. Epiphany was the day that Easter dates were announced. The letters are the initials of the Magi. Epiphany celebrates their arrival to see Jesus.

Martha the dutiful, and Mary the listener, sisters in Bethany with their guest Jesus.

The miracle of the multiplication of five loaves, and two fish.

The miracle of Jesus raising the daughter of Jairus.

I have seen a few windows of the Flight into Egypt. I haven't gotten a satisfactory camera to capture the color detail of all the four faces, Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and the burro (some people get shocked at the proper noun, and for those people the word donkey was invented). Remember the ass shows up at the Nativity, and the entrance into Jerusalem.

A round window is slightly rarer than a rectangular, or arched window. This is the Father and the Holy Spirit over a rood (crucifixion) statue group. 

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But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent. — Amos v. 24.

some more after i first posted:

 I read the news today, oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh

 

Immediately after the verdict came in i thought of this playlist:

• Johnny Cash (Live) - I Got Stripes.   Y'no, i'm a traditionalist, it's black and white stripes, but i see orange and white are available.
• In the Jailhouse Now by Jimmie Rodgers (1928)
• The Crickets - I Fought The Law
• Bruce Springsteen - I Fought The Law
• Sam Cooke - Chain Gang

flamingo

This is why i want to get to see and foto as soon as i find about something, it may not be there later.

We were there Monday, before Sean Brennan (who initiated the arrival of the bird), and then Sia Nyorkor woio, and then wjw showed up. The original flamingo cost $2,000. Three additional have been bought for other locales at $2,300@. The one remaining foot almost looks like some kind of voodoo.

The bird was planted after Christmas Day, this foto was before the new year. Saturday at 2.22 am a neighbour's security camera recorded [click] where three idiots parked their car a few feet away from the heist. A few minutes before that the saloons closed. 

Well, i was expecting to post this later, but the three dumbshits were arrested and went to court. They are all from Parma: Taylor Pupkiewicz, 25; Marcus Balue, 25; and David Burak, 24.

How did Parma get flamingos? Supra, census figures (with % growth) for Parma. There was a time that Parma was the most happening place in America, it was the fastest growing municipality in the country. A local late night movie host, Ernie "Ghoulardi" Anderson, was living in Parma. He made it a part of his show. His poking fun at Parma was constant. Parma's largest ethnic group is German. The city has many Lutheran and Catholic churches. Increasingly, Parma was getting more eastern European. The second most common ethnic group are Poles, and other slavonic and eastern Europeans were just lumped as Poles too. A very popular yard decoration was Featherstone's pink flamingos. For a long time many residents, and other Poles were not pleased at the humour. In recent decades the flamingo has been accepted. [see and click]

2024 Miscellany #8—another central Ohio road trip

Tuesday was a day full of beautiful clouds. Monday rained after overly warm days, and Wednesday rained as a colder day.

Khaki Campbell drake relaxing in Scioto Park Dublin. There were four escaped farm ducks there.

Dublin Arts Council has three snails from Cracking Art Collective. Cleveland had a larger contingent in the summer of 2016 [click].

AFL founded in 1886 in Columbus.

some interesting geometry in downtown Columbus

Winston the Welsh terrier, and his guardian/companion we met in Columbus. He pointed out that he had a cap with a Welsh terrier on it, while i had a greyhound on my cap. Winston had a collar full of Welsh dragon flags.

 

Painting in the Columbus Park of Roses

Norfolk & Western W2 2-8-0  Baldwin 1903 

Four companies made 202 of these steam locomotives between 1901 and 1905. This one is the only one that did not go to scrap. Number 917 operated until 1950.  In 2008 it came north to Ohio. It sits in Belleville with a diner made from a luggage car and a caboose.

The building was Bissman Wholesale Grocer Brewer Hotel is an awning made for the Shawshank Redemption moving picture. Mansfield has used that time for tourist promotion.

Mansfield, the front of this building was seen in Shawshank Redemption as the Brewer Hotel. They drank Stroh's in the movie. If you look closely, you can see Mail Pouch Tobacco underneath. Schlitz was the number one beer in America in 1902, and several times thereafter. It once was a good beer, and in the 1970s it was reformulated to be a bad beer.

Ohio Jacque twins

 

Marblehead Jacque is in bleu now. He has been there since 1972. He was transferred, and then erected without hands, and was called Handless Jacque. He had attached the ironwork which once was his hands, tray(s), and sandwiches. Mike Cahill organised his rehabilitation in 2021.

Jacque now has a Lakeside Daisy in his lapel, and US flag bow tie, and hands

Now this Jacque is in Belleville, and is visible from the interstate. Actually, we saw this one first. I had read about Marblehead Jacque for years, and i saw this one and thought that there might be more. manufactures like the muffler men giants. I saw, while in car, the distinct lean, and thought i saw the head move, and a rope. Perhaps it was inflated, and the rope was a tie down. It was by the locomotive diner, perhaps another attraction.

Off to the search engines, there were two Jacques made. They were for sandwich joints in Marion, and Mansfield Ohio. Here is where various writers have confused the two. The Jacque's restaurants operated in the 1960s to 1972. The two statues may not have been identical. The French waiters may have had white trousers, and blue jackets. They may have held one or two trays, with roast beef, or ham and/or   corned beef sandwiches. They may be 28', 30', 32', 35' or other feet tall. One may have been called Pierre. A restaurant may have become a pizza joint, a restaurant may have become an Arthur Treacher's, one may have burned down. The city may have ordered the statue taken down. The one in Marion, or the one in Mansfield may be the one in Marblehead. I guess the preponderance of reportage has the move from Marion to Marblehead.

Mike Byrne owns the choo-choo diner, and Mike Cahill came there in 2022. Cahill's father, Terry, had bought the other 50 years before, and it lay disassembled. The two Mikes talked. Since the head had been separated, they agreed to attach it with a spring to make a bobblehead. Byrne is a Buckeye fan, and the restaurant has Ohio State (formerly A&M) decor. Jacque now has a scarlet coat (near the tail of his jacket some of the blue is visible). Belleville Jacque was up in July 2022.

close up

into the Italian Garden

Cleveland Reddit: 4.45pm Thursday vehicle 60mph went into Italian Garden. Fire, EMS showed up, police absent.  

This Saturday morning we were walking our hound. The matching column is rubble, small pieces of vehicle there. Made it most of the way to the fountain.

You know the vehicle was on East Boulevard, the upper one of the two avenues of Rockefeller Park and the Cultural Gardens. The lower boulevard (its original name) is MLK Jr Blvd., it is all park/gardens from the freeway to East 105. It has stoplights by the freeway, and none till 105.  The upper one is all park/garden from where it begins going up from MLK to Superior on its west side, and has some big houses, a school, and park/gardens to Superior, with a stoplight at St. Clair. Both are curvy. They were not built to be raceways. There is much less traffic on East Blvd. MLK is very busy, and runs faster than posted, and is not save to cross even at crosswalks. Several light poles, benches, and signs have been knocked over.

Sunday past, both columns upright with planters in between.

2024 Miscellany #7—some spring in Northeast Ohio

University Circle Methodist's fleche above tree blossoms

Max Kalish. Abraham Lincoln. 1932. Cleveland. 

 Children funded the statue outside the then Board of Education.

Cleveland Main Library. The Archive flower exhibit by Rebecca Louise Hall.

Cleveland's skyscrapers

near Everett Bridge Peninsula Ohio

Eclipse egg in Lorain's basket at Lake View Park

glass in Lincoln Theater, Massillon Ohio

Veterans Administration Hospital E. 105th Cleveland

Gone is the onion dome...

Well, to-day is Pentecost Sunday in the West. The color for the day is red in the West. This is now a Pentecostal church with a new name.  It was recently Faith Tabernacle. A photographer, Glenn P., recently posted a foto, and wrote the paint still smelled fresh. It was a very sunny morning, Glenn's foto is more fire engine red, mine is tending to candy apple.

 

March 2021

I have ridden by this church, it is visible from Superior. It is across the old St. George Lithuanian church. Usually i paid no attention, but one day i was intrigued by the double ogee arch. It was neat, but seemingly out of place. So i used the camera. One can notice that the paint scheme reversed some red for white, and versa vice.

There were bells then...  http://www.st-sergius.org/history.html

Russian Orthodox refugees built their new church there in 1951-2, St. Sergius of Radonezh. Here are two fotos from that time. The neighbourhood became unsafe, and in 1977 a new St. Sergius came to Parma, on top of Broadview hill. On the bottom of the hill was St. Sava Serbian Orthodox, which in 1965 had also moved from Cleveland's east side. Parma has become home to several Orthodox, and Eastern rite churches, and Eastern European Protestant churches.

and a mosaic, and an onion dome, and an Orthodox cross.

The altar would have been behind where the wall is painted yellow. St. George's is in the distance.