The church was built in the 1840s to a neo-Gothic design by architect August Welby Pugin, famous for his work on the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. It was paid for by halfpenny donations from the poorest community of immigrants on Tyneside, and was enhanced in the following decades by bequests from the Dunn family [...]
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Cathedral Church of St Mary – Newcastle
10 Comments CherryPie on Nov 7th 2015
If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze!
St. Catherine of Sienna
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 1st 2015
The only church on Tartinijev Trg [Piran Square], the relatively diminutive St Peter has roots going all the way back to 1272, but took its present classical form in 1818. An exquisite relief above the main entrance depicts Christ bestowing the keys to the Heavenly Kingdom upon Peter.
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 26th 2015
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales
16 Comments CherryPie on Oct 25th 2015
The church was first mentioned in the 13th Century.
It acquired its present day appearance after numerous renovation works in the year 1773 and extensive restoration in the year 1890. It was dedicated to the one of the first Roman popes – St Clement. Because of the dreaded plague that propagated throughout Istria in the 17th [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Oct 15th 2015
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 11th 2015
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
See the dwelling place of God among men !
And he will dwell with them,
they will be his people,
and God himself will be with them.
Revelation 21.3
When I was in St Nicholas Cathedral, Ljubljana I looked at the literature (a habit of mine) that is always available near to the entrance of a church. Whilst I [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 4th 2015
