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Desloge Chapel is a Gothic church in St. Louis, Missouri. Located at Grand Avenue and Vista Avenue, it was designed by Gothic revivalist architect Ralph Adams Cram to echo the Sainte-Chapelle chapel in Paris. Built in 1931-33 for the Firmin Desloge Hospital, now St. Louis University Medical Center, the chapel serves as an ecumenical pastoral chapel for the hospital complex, and is formally designated the Chapel of Christ the Crucified King by the Roman Catholic church within the Archdiocese of St. Louis.〔St. Louis University, Pastoral Care Department: https://www.slu.edu/pastoral-care〕 In 1983, Desloge Chapel was declared a landmark by the Missouri Historical Society. == History == Like the hospital it serves, the Desloge Chapel was underwritten by gifts from the family of Firmin V. Desloge,〔This gift, the second of two, was reported by the Globe-Democrat on February 15, 1931. Archives of the Globe Democrat, now out of business, Mercantile Library, St. Louis, Missouri.〕 one of the oldest French families in the United States and wealthy through lead mining and other endeavors.〔Stevens, Walter B. St. Louis The Fourth City 1764–1911. 2 vols. St. Louis-Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909 and 1911.〕 Firmin's wife Lydia Holden Davis Desloge gave $100,000 ($ today) to build the chapel.〔bequest of Mrs. Firmin V. Desloge (née Lydia Holden Davis) Probated will of Lydia Desloge, source Farmington (Missouri) Press, December 1932〕〔the original, fully executed bequest documents in the possession of the Missouri Historical Society Archives, St. Louis, MO, Joseph Desloge Collection〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Saint Louis University Timeline )〕 Roman Catholic Archbishop John Glennon laid the cornerstone of the hospital on June 22, 1931, and consecrated the chapel on November 9, 1933. In 1952, the funeral of the founder's son, Firmin V. Desloge II, was held at the chapel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RootsWeb: MOSTFRAN-L [MOSTFRAN-L] Firmin V. Desloge - St. Francois County Mining Executive )〕〔The Desloge Chronicles, by Christopher D Desloge, 2011〕 In 1998, Saint Louis University sold the Chapel, along with the Hospital, to Tenet Healthcare Corp., a for-profit chain based in Dallas. In 2015, the university bought back the hospital, then sold it to SSM Health, "the Creve Coeur-based health care system sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, formerly Sisters of Saint Mary.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Desloge Chapel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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