Monday, November 18, 2013

CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF THE HOLY SACRAMENT AND OF THE HOLY CANADIAN MARTYRS

CHIESA DI NOSTRA SIGNORA DEL SS. SACRAMENTO E SS. MARTIRI CANADESI
1950/55 Bruno Apolloni Ghetti (1905/89) for the Congregation of Holy Sacrament
The name recalls the more than 300 Jesuit missionaries who, from 1611 to 1760, went to Canada: thirty-six were killed and among these, eight were beatified and canonized later in 1930
Canadian National Church 
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"Monstrance" (now not here anymore) by Francesco Nagni (1897/1977)
Ambos and "Crucifixion" by Alfredo Biancini
SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT by Eugenio De Courten (1925/2009)
Windows by Marcello Avenali (1912/81) and by the Hungarian naturalized Italian János "Giovanni" Hajnal (1913/2010)

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