Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

If that Ballyroan church revamp gets the go ahead I suppose it will end up something like this one in Banagher in County Offaly

“Let bishops carefully remove from the house of God and from other sacred places those works of artists which are repugnant to faith, morals, and Christian piety, and which offend true religious sense either by depraved forms or by lack of artistic worth, mediocrity and pretense.”

The Madonna and Child carved (1974) in wood and polychromed and artistically called a Mandorla (Italian for almond shaped) is by Imogen Stuart, Berlin born daughter in law of novelist Francis Stuart. The artist said that she wanted this Madonna to be simple, joyful and tender with an atmosphere of intimacy, devotion and quietness something where people can turn to perhaps after coming out of confession …….

Her work in Ireland includes the nine bronze panels on the great west door way of Galway Cathedral, the bronze figure of St. Michael and the dragon over the main door of St. Michael’s Church, Dun Laoghaire, the Stations of the Cross at the magnificently restored Ballintubber Abbey, Co. Mayo, the altar and most of the sanctuary in nearby Lorrha Church and “The Three Children” on the Green, Tyrrelspass, Co. Westmeath.