Showing posts with label blessing of the bells. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blessing of the bells. Show all posts

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Today's Blessing of the Bells


Mom and I went to the Cathedral Basilca today for the Blessing of the new bells.



There are four bells, named for four female saints. St. Katherine Drexel and three others that I can't recall at the moment.



The Cathedral Basilica looks spiffy and clean. I didn't realize how red that stone was.






Detail of the Corbels below the South Tower where the bells will be.
I really need to spend time really photographing the church one day.

The new cross, it's a replica of the original, which includes a piece of the old one.


The school for she established here in Santa Fe was closed in the mid-1990s, but it was for Native Americans.

There were sisters from the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, the order she established on hand for the Blessing.


Blessed Kateri stands in the front courtyard of the Cathedral Basilica.
It's hard to believe just how much this church has changed through the years. Mom and I were talking about that today.