The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-09-16
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CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION

teen feet. 1t will be suitable for par
ish gatherings and meetings of vari-
Gus kinds and is so arranged that it
may be used as winter chapel. Be-
meath the apse is the engine-room,
boiler-room and a series of coal and
storage rooms reached directly from
the delivery alley which runs trans
versely across the middle of the base
ment and communicates with the
street through the delivery entrance
on Thirty-eighth Street.
A distinguishing feature of the new
church is the belfry tower. 1t rises
high above the roof of the church
like lofty obelisk with a base TWEEN
ty-fOur feet square and an altitude of
one hundred and fifty feet. 1t stands
beside the apse and, in it's lower por-
ton, room sixteen feet square forms
the vestry for the acolytes. Above
this is second room designed for
the accommodation of the parish
archives. The walks of the tower
taper slightly in their upward course
and two tall, narrow windows on each
side admit light to the interior of
the shaft. The belfry chamber is we'll
up toward the top of the campanile.
This portion is treated very openly
with the design of giving unrestricted
freedom to the Ginning of the bells.
Above the belfry chamber the pyra-
midal roof is surmounted by a cross
It's great elevation requires that the
cross be large and heavy in order to
give to it's appearance, when viewed
from the street, some proportion to
the tower and the church of which
it is the crown. 1t will be illuminated
at night by electricity-at once land
mark in the city and a symbol of the
spiritual light streaming over the
world from the Incarnation of Christ
Throughout the architecture of the
Church of the Incarnation the exquis-
lite half-round Romanesque arch pre-
dominates. From the great windows
in the transepts and the openings in
the sanctuary wall to the main en-
trance in the facade the arch softens
the lines of panel and door, of win
dow, ceiling and gallery, giving to
each part of the structure a pleasing
finish and to the entire edifice a ma
jestic harmony eminently BETTING the
house of God.
The parish of the Incarnation will
be seven years old on October 5, next
and the excavations for the new
church will be we'll under way by that
time. Reverend j. M. Cleary who
organized the parish seven years ago
has had to face, with his people, all
the difficulties besetting a new par
ish. How steadily he has labored to
overcome these difficulties and how
loyalty his people have followed his
leadership may be seen in the -four
ishing conditions now obtaining in
the parish. A splendidly equipped
school building in which more than
three hundred children are receiving
Catholic training from nine Domini-
can Sisters, church hall in that
school building, with room for eight
hundred worshippers, filled at the five
well appointed parochial residence, a
roomy and comfortable house for the
Sisters-these are some of the visible
results of seven years of zeal and CO.
operation between pastor and people.
During that period Father Cleary has
reserved for the site of the new
church one of the choicest plats of
ground in the city of Minneapolis.
An effort will be made to have the
foundation completed this fall and an
early start on the superstructure will
be made next spring.
The men of the parish have already
organized a financial committee, the
members of which began this week
an active campaign to raise the funds
for the new church. Their work is