A feast of American saints

[muckefuck]

So, while researching the life of St. John Kochurov (whose Chicago connexion is that he helped found Holy Trinity Cathedral--designed by Louis Sullivan--in Ukrainian Village), we stumbled across an excellent page on American saints hosted by the Orthodox Church in America. St. Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of All America, was the only one Monshu and I had ever heard of before. Who knew that there was a St. Raphael of Brooklyn? The story we found most interesting, however, was that of St. Alexis Toth, who was actually a Uniate priest until snubbed by Fr John Ireland (a man, quoth Monshu, "who did a lot of good for the Church and a lot of bad") because of the window it opened on Catholic immigrant history--though the tales of half-Aleut missionary St. Jacob of Alaska are also not without their (entirely different) appeal.

Enjoy!

Comments

icons vs. paintings

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

That was our biggest disappointment at St. Andrews on Sheridan. The interior wall paintings were totally in the Western tradition. Perfectly nice, I guess, but we wanted Byzantine.

Re: icons vs. paintings

[darkphuque.livejournal.com]

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Exactly...you should see St Sophia in LA....not only are the "icons" romantic, but they're faces (angels/Archangels/Cherubim, etc. are the faces of the Donor's Grand children/grand nieces and nephews...
Disgusting. It destroys the whole reason to have images in the Church.