Well, the structure is still there, of course, and the interior has not changed that much, but I thought Birmingham-ers might be interested in this image of St. Paul’s Cathedral. It’s a postcard I picked up at an estate sale.
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The features that you would expect to be different today are just so – altars, pulpit. I can’t reproduce it here, but this photo by Flickr user “BamaCam” gives you a good idea of what it looks like now. The photo was taken in 2008, and there have been a few changes since – the paint job(s) in the sanctuary, most noticeably. Those upper panels – in the postcard bearing images of Christ, and at some point obviously painted over (for whatever reason…) were last year repainted with symbols of the sacraments. They are okay – nowhere near as colorful as the original images and a little hard to make out from a distance.
Very beautiful. Ae you aware that a private wedding took place her in 1921 and thn a couple hours later the father of the bride, who was not at the wedding, wlaked up on the porch of the rectory and the PAstor minding hiw own business and praying his beivery was shot down like a dog, just because the priest was the Church’s primary witness at the wedding of a Methodist ‘s daughter to a Catholic. The entir event, including the fact that the man got away with it becqause the judge, the defense attorneys and even some of the juury were KKK. The lead defense attotney did not become for another 18 mo., but he certainly argued like he was already there.
The book, Risssing Road is by Sharon Davies.
Yes – that was Fr. James Coyle. I have written about that case before. The website for the local group promoting awareness is here: http://www.fathercoyle.org/