Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1938-1940

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portion of is an ever-blooming blue shrub com- monly c lied the "night-shade" or Solanum. Dirretly under the wo large front v.indows there is a group planting of the shrub known as Abelia Grandi Flora- ·h1ch bears pink and white bell- haped blossoms A shmb called the Cotoneaster, which bears red berries durmg the winter months. has been planted at the rear of rhe • !. usolcum; and to complete the land capmg ensemble there are ome Italian cypress tress planted in pairs to frame the windows and to lend height to these rear wings of the building. ABOUT THE GROTTO With the completion of the grotto which is to be located just. across the circular driveway near the front entrance, the landscap- ing ensemble will be finished and will stand as a fitting and most symmetrical frame for the beau- t i f u 1 Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel. Amid so much beauty it is dif- ficult to point to any one feature special predominance over the general ensemble. One viewi, the magnificent white marble al- tar, with its interesting liturgical canopy and rich velvet drapes framing the huge Crucifix fash- ioned of native redwood, and is inclined to feel that he need look no further for beauty unsurpas- sed. But one sees the patterns in the terrazzo floors - the con- trasting desir~"JS of the various marbles-the glorious shapes and colors of the exquisite windows- and is hard put to decide which feature of the Mausoleum is most outstanding. the building ing The classic beauty of the entire structure is climaxed in the litur- gical marble altar and baldachino. The baldachin drape shows four words done in gold letters on a background of red velour. The in- scription reads "Lux Perpetua Luceat Eis" (Let perpetual Light Shine Upon Them). A bronze tab- ernacle of roman design with six canonical candlesticks to match complete the Altar equipment. Three steps rise to the predella be- fore the Altar. The marble floor of the sanctuary is a fa~simile minia- ture of the sanctuary floor in St. Peter's in Rome. But it is, after all, not any one feature, but the Memorial Chapel as a whole that makes a lasting impression on the visitor. Here i perfection in every smallest de- tail of planning and construction; here is a safe sanctuary for those of our beloved dead whose bodies will be laid to rest amid thes beautiful surroundings. Here · this serene and peaceful atmos- phere we may go to visit the las resting place of our loved ones, unmindful of the caprices of the elements. We may walk in to sa~ a prayer before the tabernacle may enter the flower room to ar range the bouquets we have brought and then linger for a little period of meditation before the resting place of our loved ones. And so meditating, it ma be that the words of the poet, Shelley, will recur to us in swee consolation . . . "Peace, peace! He is not dead he doth not sleep- hath awakened from th

De cribe Beauties ti targaret Ye.on! Cr The very beautiful fau- --oleum hapel in Holy Cro -- Cemeterv i · now comple cd and i-.. op n to public inspec- tion. It i - a credit to he San Diego Diocese and to all the Catholic people who helped ma ·e possible it erection in Holy c ross Cemetery. We needed just such a memonal mausoleum cha- pel and now \\'e have it. This beautiful and impressive edifice has been erected on the highest knoll of the Cemetery, running north and south on a center line with the new Cemetery entrance gates and wide circular driveway. The plans for the Mausoleum were drawn by one of San Die:!o's leading arclutecLs;, Mr. Frank L. Hope, Jr., and Mr John B. Sin- ner, general contractor, erected the new Mausoleum Chapel. ROl\t:ANESQUE The Holy Cross Chapel is of a simple dignified monumental design, Romanesque in detail with the walls finished with sm~oth concrete, surmount- ed by a concrete roof over which

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in German. These latter two win- be found eight more smaller win- dows measure three feet six in- dows depicting St. Francis of Assisi, St, Therese - Turning right again to the east the Little Flower and St. Brid- wall one beholds the magnificent get; also Our Lady Queen of "Resurrection" window, 'Whose I Heaven, Our Lady of Guadalupe, dimensions are five feet by nine St. Ann and a window depicting feet six inches. Here we find deep the Annunciation. rich colors indeed, not only in the There is a window for each figures themselves, but likewise in Station of the Cross and these the background which reveals the are set high in the clerestory, in grotto or tomb of the Saviour pairs, with two extra windows- in glorious purples and blues. Just one placed as a companion win- opposite in the west wall is an- dow before the First Station and other large window of correspond- the other placed as a companion ing dimensions which depicts window after the Fourteenth Sta- The Last Supper, with the figure tion, to balance the number even- of Christ standing - holding a ches wide by six feet long.

crypt fronts is covered with dark Alaska marble, beautifully match- ed. The crypt fronts in the nave are of Yule marble from Colorado,

Joseph, St. of the Mausoleum interior as hav-

Italian Botticino

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marble. the east and west red tile has been laid. Above the I transepts the . couch crypt .fronts imposing entrance facade to the t are of Brocad1llo marble, tnm~ed left of the building there rises a with Ohvo marble--both quarried ::1 1 in the State of Vermont.

ly. The figure of Christ praying in the Garden of Olives was chos- en most appropriately to compan-

chalice and Host in His Hands. This window is also of original design. never having been execut- ed in stained glass before.

ion the First Station, while the LIKE ST. PETERS Mater Dolorosa was used as a · • d with the

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BEAUTIFUL COLORING Fourteenth Station of the Cross. beautiful All of these windows are fashion- window to be found in the west ed of antique gla.ss imported from wall close to the sanctuary is that Europe and are known as "figure Another unusually of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The windows"-each one being de- chief beauty of th is wi nd ow is th e signed and executed independent- exceedingly deep or "low key" ly.

coloring. The window in the tran- sept just opposite is by contrast "high key" in coloring, depicting the Sistine Madonna - after Raphael. The Madonna is a com- paratively dark figure against a light sky, whereas the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a light figure against a dark background. It is interesting to observe the reflec- tions of these two very beautiful Immaculata transepts-or chap- els. One feels that he is looking at six windows instead of two, owing to the lifelike reflections in the pure white mirror of the mar- ble.

All these very lovely example of stained glass art, with their ap propriate inscriptions in s-evenl different languages - Portuguese Latin, Spanish, Italian, German French and Celtic - are trul representative of the universalit of Holy Mother Church whic gathers the peoples of all nation close within her protecting arms, as members of one Feld under on LANDS~APING The th e Mausoleum was done by the Knif.. fing Nurseries of San Diego. Planted at the four corners of landscaping about

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windows in the clear white marble Shepherd and Redeemer . . walls of the Sacred Heart and Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Just above the doors at each the building are some tall sli trees known as Eugenia Myrt- may be seen a pair of rectangular folia. These trees bear red ber- windows: one depicting St. Boni- ries and were used to lend heigh face with a prayer to that saint to the landscaping in general an beneath it and the other depict- to border the larger windows an ing St. Patrick with a prayer in entrances. Other trees and shrub• Celtic at its base. bery about the building were CHILDREN'S CRYPT In the children's crypt is la window depicting Christ blessing a group of little children. The design for this window is after planted in proportion to th height of the windows, and chose with an eye to a harmonious color scheme. At the front are two Jap, anese boxwood trees, with golde privet used under the windows al side of the Mausoleum Chapel

ed. This mixture is ground smooth and the whole is then polished. making a smooth and beautifully finished floor . In this terrazzo

cept in the sanctuary, where the floor is marble. The crypt fronts are of various kinds of foreign and domestic marble laid in a

pleasing manner to bring out the floor in the Holy Cross Mauso- The tnm leum have been cast the Papal/ is an unusually colorful window around the crypts is also of con- Coat-of-Arms, together with the and here a.gain may be seen the trasting soft-toned marble. The crests of the Apostolic Delegate to I reflection~ in the marble at each walls above are of smooth painlcd) the Umted States, the Archbishop s1cte, as m the Immaculata and concrete. All doors are of heavy I of Los Angeles and the Bishop of Sacred Heart crypts. Farther oak construction; all windows are , 1 San Diego. These various crests down, nearest the sanctuary on of metal frame glazed with ex- have been cast in the floor so the west side of the nave, is the quisite stained glass. The electri- smoothly as to seem painted on infants' crypt, whose window re- cal fixtures are of cast bronze the surface- an ingenious bit of I veals a life size figure of St. An- fitted with a soft amber glass craftsmanship indeed. thony holding the Christ Child in ~hich l'eflects _a semi-u:idirect I STAINED GLASS WINDOWS his arms. . light. Each massive lamp IS SUS- L.....- 1\IAUSOLEUl\l On the east Side of the altar I The windows in the Holy Cross is a very lovely guardian angel chams, approp~iately c~pped by a Mausoleum are breathtaking in window, of circular type, while ball and cross 111 matchmg bronze. ti . b t f 1 d d . on the west wall just opposite is MARBLE IN 1\-IAUSOLEUi\l . leir eau Y O co or an esign. another circular window depict- Twelve kinds of marble are The wi nd0 ws were designed a nd ing the Holy Ghost. High above d h t . f h executed by Mr. Fred Wiela nd , the altar is yet a third c1·rcular use in t e construe 10 n ° t e who is a master of the stained Holy Cross Mausoleum. Nearly window. which is also original in glass art. des1·gn and embod1·es the Cross as half of the marble used was quar- . d 1 d All of th e glass used in th e tl1e centerp1·ece. Her·e is· repro- ne in Ita y, with one kin com- 1 t Holy Cross Mausoleum windows duced Guido Reini's "Ecce Homo" ing from Be gium and the res is of the very highest grade, much i·n tl1e center of the Cross 1·tself, coming from Alaska and various parts of the United· States. In the of it having been imported from various European countries. The with the four circular the German artist, Hoffman. This beauty of the grain. pen?ed from the ceiling by five

the sides of the Mausoleum. variety of flowering shrubs wer used to lend color to the general ensemble and to soften the con- tours of the building, making it seem less square. Among these flowering plants is the night- blooming Jasmine which bears white blossoms of a very heady fragrance, together with a shrub called Dombeya, which has the appearance of hydrangea, except that its blossoms tend to droop. / In the nook on the left-han , side at the front of the buildin is a little corner planted ~it yellow oleanders which, like t Jasmine, is a sweet-scented flo - er. Planted in the corner where the lobby projects from the mai

corner pieces depicting the four Evan- gelists-Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

lobby the couch crypt fronts are glass being fired under a high of Cremo and Botticino marble degree of heat, the designs can imported from Italy. In the east never be obscured by the passage and west corridors the cryp1, of time, but will remain perm- fronts are of light clouded Alaska anent through the years. To al- marble trimmed _with_ Gravina low for the slight dimming of the marble, also quarried m Alaska. ' colors by the elements and tern- The wall space opposite these perature changes, very deep rich shades have been used on these windows throughout.

As one approaches the Mauso- leum he sees first the lovely rose window set high above the main entrance. Lower down on the right-hand side is a window de- signed after Raphael's ·'Trans- figuration"-with an inscription in French at its qase. Flanking this windo,,· on the left is a re- production of the "Crucifixion"- a very beautiful and original com- po8iton of stained glass art. The inscription unrtrr t.his winctO\ • Is i ·