|
St. Alphonsus Church, Rectory, Convent and Halle, also known as St. John Neumann Shrine and "Baltimore's Powerhouse of Prayer," is an historic Roman Catholic church complex located within the Archdiocese of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ==Description== The church is based on the design of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna and follows a basilica floorplan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.stalphonsusbalt.org/ )〕 The structure is constructed of red brick with limestone accents in the Gothic Revival style. The nave reaches a height of and the ornate steeple rises above the three-level bell tower. A gold cross caps the steeple. The Halle is a -story brick structure also in the Gothic Revival style opposite the church across Saratoga Street. It features a center entrance housed in projecting square bay topped by a gable. The adjacent three-story convent and the four-story rectory simple Georgian townhouses of brick. The complex was constructed between 1842 and 1845 and was the first major design by noted Baltimore architect Robert Cary Long, Jr.. From its founding until 1917, the parish was overseen by the Redemptorist Fathers whose members came to Baltimore to minister to the growing German immigrant community. John Neumann was one of the early pastors of St. Alphonsus prior to becoming Bishop of Baltimore in 1860. He was canonized June 19, 1977. Neumann's assistant pastor, Francis Xavier Seelos, served as pastor after his departure and later worked in areas from Connecticut to Illinois and New Orleans. Seelos was beatified April 9, 2000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.seelos.org/lifeBiography.html )〕 By 1917, many of the German immigrants who lived in the area moved elsewhere and St. Alphonsus became a parish for the Lithuanian immigrant community.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.stmarys.edu/archives/natl_parishes.pdf )〕 The church hosts regular Tridentine Masses and masses in Lithuanian. St. Alphonsus Church, Rectory, Convent and Halle was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.〔 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「St. Alphonsus Church, Rectory, Convent and Halle (Baltimore)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|