If you read my blog, you know that Saint Anne’s original church building, now our chapel, was built by Henry Ford in 1938 as a non denominational chapel. He named it after his mother and mother-in-law, Martha and Mary. The Diocese of Savannah purchased the chapel from the Ford Foundation in 1955 for Saint Anne Mission but kept the Martha/Mary name as a secondary name for historic purposes.
Henry Ford build duplicates of this chapel in several locations.
I posted the trailer of this horror movie at the top. When I first saw it on Facebook, I thought, that’s St. Anne’s Martha and Mary Chapel. How did they use it without my permission (actually our dioceses’s)?
They did not use ours but the Martha and Mary Chapel near Boston, a near duplicate of ours.
This is St. Anne’s Martha and Mary Chapel:
This is the Martha and Mary Chapel outside of Boston used in the movie (screenshots):
3 comments:
Technically, it was the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta that purchased the chapel if the year indeed was 1955. That was the last full year Georgia was a one-diocese state, as the following summer, the state was divided into two dioceses. It was the Diocese of Savannah from 1850 to 1937 and back to that since 1956.
I like the chapel design and furnishings.
I think Henry Ford was Episcopalian, but a "High-Church" Episcopalian would be comfortable in such a setting.
Creepy. Almost exact in design with the exception of the windows behind the altar. As for the movie, apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary that are NOT Her doing bring to mind Medjugorje and Garabandal. If one wants to watch a horror movie, just take a peek at the pictures from Garabandal....the looks on the children's faces are demonic, walking backwards up hills....I'll stick with Fatima, Our Lady of Knock and Lourdes.
I had looked up those various dupe chapels several weeks back, and was struck by how much Ford tried to mass produce perfect communities for workers, much as did Pullman. Being kingdoms of Man, none lasted.
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