Tag Archives: church architecture

St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City

Posted on October 27, 2018 by crowcanyonjournal

On our way home from vacationing in Spain and Portugal last year we stopped for four days in New York City before flying back to California. On one of those days my wife decided to do some shopping in the … Continue reading →

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San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Cathedral

Posted on August 8, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

The Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption sits atop a hill on the corner of Geary Blvd and Gough St now called Cathedral Hill. It is the city’s third Catholic cathedral. The first, now called Old St Mary’s, was … Continue reading →

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Twenty Churches in Twenty Days

Posted on September 13, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

We visited 20 churches on our trip to Europe last May. Here’s the breakdown by country: Switzerland 4, France 1, Germany 11, Netherlands 1, and Belgium 3. And by denomination: Roman Catholic 12, Lutheran /Evangelical 5, Presbyterian 2, Old Catholic … Continue reading →

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Inside the Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula

Posted on August 16, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

The majority of the churches we visited in Europe in May of 2012 had their origins with the building of Romanesque structures about a thousand years ago. St Michael and St Gudula was no exception. Count Lambert II founded a … Continue reading →

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Outside the Cathedral in Brussels

Posted on August 3, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

After visiting the Grand Place (see previous posting) on Monday, May 28, 2012 we walked up the hill in a north-easterly direction and soon found ourselves on the steps of The Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula, informally known … Continue reading →

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Touring the Collegiate Church of Sainte Gertrude in Nivelles

Posted on June 5, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

After our lunch on Sunday, May 27, 2012 my wife and I walked down the hill with our friend George DeCat to visit the Collegiate Church of Ste Gertrude. The tour we received was entirely in French with George acting … Continue reading →

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Charlemagne’s Chapel

Posted on May 26, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

Charlemagne was tired. Tired from the Saxon wars that went off and on for 30 years. Tired of the ventures in southern France and northern Spain and his battles there with Basques, Saracens and Visigoths. Tired of crossing the Alps … Continue reading →

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St Peter’s Cathedral in Osnabrück

Posted on May 22, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

St Marienkirche has perfectly symmetrical north and south sides (four gables and four high Gothic windows on each side).  It took us three minutes to walk from the church’s south side on Mrktplatz to Domplatz to visit the Dom or … Continue reading →

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St Mary’s Church in Osnabrück

Posted on May 15, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

We agreed to meet up with Carol Saint-Clair again on Friday afternoon in order to conclude our tour of historic Osnabrück by visiting two of the city’s great churches: the Lutheran St Mary’s Church (St Marienkirche) on Mrktplatz and the … Continue reading →

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Searching for my Theler Ancestors: Dielingen

Posted on April 25, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

Our third stop on our Friday morning tour (May 25, 2012) was to the village of Dielingen which sits on North Rhine-Westphalia’s border with Lower Saxony about 12.5 miles northwest of Hedem. In the 1970s Dielingen joined twelve other villages … Continue reading →

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