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Sunday, May 19, 1ft T1IK CINCINNATI JtiNCt UIltKtt Page 38 News Section American Indian get a good share of the mistreatment, Marcson young mind connect the Jewish people with persecution and accept it as a normal activity. The Irish, Mexicans and the Old Cathedral's Glorious Past Recalled On Eve Of Its Centennial Celebration Professor Hits Books For Race Prejudices; Suggests Rewriting State College, May 18 (UP) diocese, funds were raised and the corner stone was laid on May 20, 1841, on the Feast of the Ascension of Christ into Heaven. Work on the building: went at a slow pace. Financial panics in the country made it difficult for the people of the diocese to contribute. The superstructure of the cathedral, as planned, was to be of Dayton stone, which had to be brought to Cincinnati by way of the canal.

Since water was withdrawn from the canal frequently, construction was hindered. However, the church neared completion finally and consecration ceremonies were held November 2, 1845. In "preparation for this great and to have about 70 by 100 feet, Grecian style of architecture with portico and colonnade in front, with vestibule, all about 30 or 40 feet deep, and with a steeple carried up from the foundation. The ceiling I am inclined to hav-. flat or but slightly caved.

Also an organ loft, but I am not much inclined for galleries. It is intended to have a basement story destined for Sunday schools and places of meeting, chiefly above ground. The roof is to be covered with zinc or copper. These specifioations, I presume, will be sufficient. I shali add, only, that in all probability the house shall be of brick with stone foundation." Blinds Are Our Business Not a Side Line! CUSTOM-MADE STEEL Venetian BUNDS Racial and religious prejudice seeping into school and college textbooks warrants an overhaul treatment for much of modern day classroom equipment, said assistant SOCioloirv PrnfoBanl.

very soul from which flowed the spiritual life of Catholicity in this area. The edifice itself at Eighth and Plum familiar to every Cin-cinnatian and one of the historical buildings visited by tourists, was Marcson of Pennsylvania State Col cell, shortly after his arrival tc Cincinnati in November, 1833, as the successor to Bishop Edward Fenwick, the first Bishop of the Cincinnati diocese. How specific Bishop Purcell was in his directions for the cathedral and how similar is the St. Peter in Chains Church of today to that he visualized can be seen from the following excerpts from one of his letters to an architect: "The cathedral I would propose BY ANN RUSSELL. St.

Peter in Chains Church, the Id cathedral, which will climax its 100th anniversary next week with special programs, is rich in the traditions, the history and the growth of the church and city. As the mother church of the Catholic diocese, later the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, it has stood for nearly a century as the mainspring, the lege. Texts should be rewritten in the same manner the Armv is nvamn. described by Charles Dickens as one of the finest types of Grecian I. Eight Sq.

Ft. architecture in this country. The ing them in Germany and Japan, location was chosen and the type according to Marcson, to "enlarge historic occasion, priests of the Through the establishment of a of building designed by its first pastor, Bishop John Baptist Pur- on American democratic traditions" and remove unfair descriptions of church-building society of the diocese made spiritual retreats for eight days before the event, and most of the English-speaking ixegroes, Jews and various nationalities. The Negro is often Tortraverl as We measure your blinds at no extra charge. Catholics or the diocese received communion in the old cathedral on a simple, superstitious, menial, easy Gall MA 4689 or GH 5572 going type," Marcson said.

Few authors point out that many of our Negroes are doctors, lawyers, educators and good citizens." Jews have been associated with Sycamore Street to prepare for entrance in their new church. The Most Rev. Dr. John Eccleston, Archbishop of Baltimore, was the consecrating clergyman and church dignataries from far and near attended. Completion of the structure was persecution, he said, to make "the To the 17,482 families in Cincinnati waiting to welcome that new refrigerator into their kitchens carried on after the consecration and included the erection of a 205- foot steeple and the placing of Attordln0 to a recent survey niches intended as resting: places 4 Weeks' Delivery Made exactly to fit your windows.

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elevated to the dignity of an archdiocese, the cathedral assumed an even greater significance in its place in the lives of adherents of the faith in this vicinitv anrl in thn history of the Catholic Church of America. The bell and chimes for the cathedral were heard for the first time at 5 a. m. on July 4, 1852, whan the strains of "Hail Colum bia and sacred hymns, including sanctissima" and the TanLum Ergo," broke the silence of the New and Exciting! this ball pointed pen by a famous maker dawn on that Independence Day. The chimes and the clock were but two of the many gifts from Reuben H.

Springer, widely known philan thropist of that era. who contrib uted funds and presented works of art to the Cathedral over a period of many vears. It was he. also. who provided money for the establishment of the parish school, Springer Institute.

This was the same Srjrineer. whose generosity in providing the EVERSffARP 6d Dulk or the monev. made it nnssihlo for Cincinnati to have its famous Music Hall. The Old Cathedral Tins frnm its beginning been a veritable store house of treasures of art in oils, REPEATER PEN, marble, statues, ornaments and altar vessels, many of them the donations from members and other persons throughout the United States, given in thanksgiving to God for favors or blessings He has bestowed on them. The donors, wanting to show appreciation to the Divinitv.

desired their piftn in Aw-; writes up to three years be part of the embellishment of the house of God where they continue as silent tributes from grateful heart One of the'famous paintings adorning the cathedral is "St. Peter Liberated by the Angel" by finance it this modern, easier, low-cost way. Look for this emblem at your dealer's Murillo, a present to Bishop Fenwick from Cardinal Fesch, an uncle of Napoleon. 1 Through the years, Archbishop William Henry Elder, Archbishop Henry Moeller and Archbishop John T. McNicholas succeeded Archbishop Purcell as heads of the archdiocese and continued the work he started, as pastor of St.

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