Photographer: Jann Soltis
2/23/01
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| SWEETEST HEART
OF MARY / The Pulpit Photographer: Jann Soltis 2/23/01 |
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The Pulpit
| In the manner of many large European churches, the pulpit of Sweetest Heart of Mary Church is veritably in the center of the edifice. It was positioned thus so that the preacher could be heard throughout the entire vast interior in a day when public address systems did not exist. It is anchored to a pillar in the north transept. Its canopy rises some sixteen feet, soaring into an intricate Gothic pinnacle, decorated with many lesser such pinnacles. This reiterates the theme of the many pinnacles atop the high altar and the other lesser altars, and it creates a sense of unity which is intensified by the lofty frontal steeples and the lesser pinnacles found all through the exterior of the church. |