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Saturday, January 9, 2021

FINALLY, SINCE THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH ACQUIRED THE MARTHA AND MARY CHAPEL, TO BE SAINT ANNE MISSION AND LATER CHURCH, WE HAVE THE ACTUAL SAINTS DEPICTED IN THE CHAPEL AS A RESULT OF A GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION

 Oooh, aaah, a new image of Jesus, Martha and Mary in our Martha and Mary Chapel has been hung it the sanctuary! Out of respect for Richmond Hill’s history and that Henry Ford named this once non denominational chapel built in 1938 after his mother and mother-in-law, Martha and Mary, when our Diocese acquired it in 1955 for St. Anne Mission, the subtitle Martha and Mary was kept. But today we have the actual two Saints depicted in this chapel. I love Martha’s sneer at Mary! It is quite a generous donation to the chapel. So without officially and actually changing its historic secular name, we just did.





4 comments:

Fr. Michael J. Kavanaugh said...

Nice! Do you know anything about the painting? Oil, print, artist?

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

I am not sure who the artist is and when it was paint. I feel its style fits the chapel very well.

ByzRus said...

Nice! An appropriate evolution.

Anonymous said...

Interesting history, and thanks for background, as well as a great example of cultural appropriation in baptising a totally secular thing.