Posted March 25, 201213 yr The Josephinum, the local Columbus Seminary, had a public tour yesterday. The building is most stunning from the outside built by Irish and German immigrants during the great depression. But there are also so nice features inside the seminary also. I couldn't resist taking a shot of my patron saint. The main entrance As you can see with the Vatican flag on the left this is actually papal ground. This is the only property the papacy owns outside of the embassy in the United States. This is Pope Benedict's Crest This is the Vatican's Crest Nice Organ in the main church Apparently there used to be a beautiful motif in the front of the church behind the alter but they covered it up since it was having tons of water damage. Very Sad! Here is their lovely chapel The Phoenix! This was in their library. It is one of the original German Bibles from the late 1400s
March 25, 201213 yr Amazing stuff! As you can see with the Vatican flag on the left this is actually papal ground. This is the only property the papacy owns outside of the embassy in the United States. Fascinating. Didn't know that. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 25, 201213 yr Great photos of a wonderful structure. Do you have a source for the point about papal land? Cincinnati has the Athenaeum of Ohio, which seems pretty similar to this facility, and I know there are countless other of these types of institutions across the USA.
March 26, 201213 yr The seminarians who gave me the tour told us this was the only facility in the U.S. directly controlled by the Vatican
March 26, 201213 yr ^You've driven to Toledo/Northwest Ohio from Columbus and have never seen this before??? "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 26, 201213 yr Oh, and this is fascinating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifical_College_Josephinum "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 26, 201213 yr ^You've driven to Toledo/Northwest Ohio from Columbus and have never seen this before??? I just thought it was another parish.
March 26, 201213 yr There is a bunch of really inside baseball about the state of Catholicism in the 1890s that explains the existence of this place in Columbus. A lot of it had to do with a non-existent heresy and a German Catholic priest running around Europe claiming (with some truth) that the Irish were oppressing the German Catholics in America.
March 27, 201213 yr Wow! Yes I did here some of this during the tour. There were lots of tensions at that time between Irish, Italian and German Catholics. Apparently the bishop was Irish at the time and having the seminary under Vatican rule was a way to avoid the oversight and possible oppression from the diocese.
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