Or the cheese Jesus, yaah, it’s the same one. The first time I saw it, I was driving from Cincinati to Dayton late at night and came upon this well-lit and huge Jesus lunging at me. Very scary.
What? I’m going to be the first to mention Alfred Hitchcock? The man directed Psycho. Granted, he was only around 5’8" but he made up for it in width.
Hey!
I went to The National Shrine of the Little Flower before it was called by such a pretentious name we called it Shrine.
Having spent an assload of mandatory weekday masses and weekend services, along with graduating, an assortment of mind numbing-guilt driven funerals and my very own wedding there, I can tell you that despite the Ginormous Jesus on a Cross and the jew-hating nutjob that was Coughlin when he died, us school kids got to go up to the casket and pray. That was October 27th of whatever year he died 77? 78?. You don’t forget shit like that. At least, I haven’t. Oh, and my mom knew him fairly well. the interior of the church is *spectacularly beautiful * .
I mean beau.ti.ful.
I’ve seen loads of German and British churches (The Berliner Dome is awesome in a gilted glory of days gone by despite it being rebuilt after getting the shit bombed out of it in WW2. But, the gilt is just over the top.) and there is something Old World and Tasteful about Shrine. I may be a bit prejudice and we use to play tag inside the church and…um…once rode our bikes inside there, too until THEY locked the doors that were on THAT side of the church. but to me, TNSofLF is an outstanding peice of architecture.
The original church was burned down by the klan in the 20’s or 30’s. So, Coughlin decided to build a cross that could not be burned. And add a radio tower inside the cross to spread the message of peace and tolerance across racial and creed lines or jabber on line a terrier on red bull about the EVULness of JEWS!!!1111. (Guess which one he picked.)
And, just because I knows this kinda thing, the stained glasses window that is behind Jesus’ head ( the halo ) was scratched when one of the altar boys assigned to clean such things used a brillo pad to do the job. It was my brother who did it.
The plaza that is underneath the cross is an outstanding place for kids to play Attack The Castle and many of its variations and run along the walls. Fall one way, land on plaza. Fall the other way, land in bushes. (I never fell the other way.)
You, sir, are my new personal hero!!!1111!!!
dang it, i can’t remember where that church/chapel is… you know the one where the interior is the bones of people who died in the plague… dang it… where is that…
going off to poke around.
Is it in France?
You’re probably thinking of the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic. The bones are from plague victims, though.
All this news about priest molesting boys, and I’m the first to make an obscene interpretation of Scariest Giant Catholic Thing! :eek:
that’s the one!!! i knew it was in eastern europe somewhere. big room with lots and lots of bones.
The Space Pope is a bit intimidating, although I don’t know if he’s gigantic.
