The picture shows the framing against the sanctuary wall that will house the statues of Mary and Joseph which stood much further out of the sanctuary.
The faming will be covered in a stone tile and the statues will sit in the niches in the middle of each side.
The center wall will be painted a deep rich burgundy with a gold stenciling after the wall has been cleaned again. (You can see the outline of the cross which is a result of smoke damage to the building.)
A true and interesting story:
The cross was mounted to the wall by three brackets. When the cross was taken down from the wall, one had pulled half way out of the wall, the cross was not attached to the second bracket and the final bracket was attached, but half the screws had been pulled out of the wall. As one construction worker said, "That cross was hanging on by a prayer."
Next time anybody asked you why we had a fire at St. Bede tell them, "It was divine intervention, a miracle. If we had not have had the fire, Fr. Carucci might have been crushed to death by Jesus and the cross in the middle of Mass."
While I'm not opposed to taking UP my cross every day, I really don't want the cross to come down on me! What would the Baptist say!
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