Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . sverified. Those on the chancel windows representthe Crucifixion, the Ascension, and the Nativity;these are memorial windows, gifts to the stained-glass windows in the clere-story ofthe transept and the chancel represent biblical sub-jects. The interior terminates in an octagonal the right of the church is the Chapel of theBlessed ^? irgin, containing a marble statue represent-ing the Virgin. The three other chapels are thos
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . sverified. Those on the chancel windows representthe Crucifixion, the Ascension, and the Nativity;these are memorial windows, gifts to the stained-glass windows in the clere-story ofthe transept and the chancel represent biblical sub-jects. The interior terminates in an octagonal the right of the church is the Chapel of theBlessed ^? irgin, containing a marble statue represent-ing the Virgin. The three other chapels are those the ground adjoining the cathedral, on the corner ofUnion Park street and Harrison avenue, is the man-sion-house of the archbishop, in which are the chiefoffices of the archdiocese. The cathedral was eightyears in building, and was consecrated with a brill-iant ser\-ice on the 8th of November, 1875. P. , of Brooklyn, , was the architect. Most of the South End Protestant churches whichmake any pretensions to architectural effect arein the famihar Gothic style. One of the earliestbuilt here, dating from 1862, that of the Tremont-. MEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. of St. Joseph, St. Patrick, and the Blessed Sacra-ment. Between the latter and the sanctuary is thelarge vestry. The great organ, the sixth in size inthe world, is built around the exquisite rose-windowof the west, and the chantry, with the smaller organ,is near the chancel and the archiepiscopal the chapels, that of the Blessed Sacrament is abeautiful piece of architecture, and it has a peculiarinterest in that it contains the altar of the old cath-edral which stood so long in Franklin street. In 1 The business block known as the Cathedral buildings, onFranklin street, now occupies the site of the old It was thesecond Catholic church in Boston, and its establishment was due tothe zeal of Fathers Francis Antony Matignon and John de Cheverus,exiled French priests, who came here, the fo
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