. Poems : with pious thoughts and practices in honor of our divine master . mmaculate Conception, isbeautiful, and everything is ir. keeping with itslovely name. Its material is stone, its whitenesscontrasting prettily with the convent, which is ofbrick. It is built in the Renaissance style, and itstall spire is surmounted by a beautiful cross, il-luminated by electricity. The church is lightedby forty-eight large stained glass \\indows, withScriptural scenes, so that to look anywhere is topray. The coloring and designs are exquisite,especially in the ones representing the Nativity,the Purific
. Poems : with pious thoughts and practices in honor of our divine master . mmaculate Conception, isbeautiful, and everything is ir. keeping with itslovely name. Its material is stone, its whitenesscontrasting prettily with the convent, which is ofbrick. It is built in the Renaissance style, and itstall spire is surmounted by a beautiful cross, il-luminated by electricity. The church is lightedby forty-eight large stained glass \\indows, withScriptural scenes, so that to look anywhere is topray. The coloring and designs are exquisite,especially in the ones representing the Nativity,the Purification and the Annunciation. The gal-leries extend nearly around the nave, and are sup-ported by large marble pillars, clouded pink andgrey. The altars will be of marble when the in-terior of the church is finished. The present tem-porary ones are attractive in their simplicity andspotless whiteness. On feast days they are aglowwith lighted tapers and adorned with fragrantflowers. Providence Convent, the Mother House, is animposing and capacious building recently COXVKXTrAL CITURCTT OF TTTK T^r^ Cn>:CT:rTTON. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. IX Its long white corridors, adorned with Scripturalmottoes, its columns and arciies, its niches, courtyard, dome and glittering cross are all very prettyand convent-like, yet it is not in all this that chief charm consists, but in the retirementand hallowed peace and quiet that everywherereign. Between the Academy and the MotherHouse, a mossy ravine presents a scene of peace-ful loveliness. It lies like some verdant valleybetween sloping hills. Spanning it is a massiveiron bridge with elaborate stone trimmings. Atone end of the ravine, close to the beautifulclnirch, is the statue of St. Michael, the Arch-angel. The stone work on which the richly carvedpedestal rests rises from the bed of the ravine,making the statue about twenty-five feet from theground. In his right hand St. Michael carries aflaming sword, on his left ar
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