St Johns Catholic Church in Maria Stein burns last week

[Tesoro]

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Local news.....not affecting many on Yappi but sad story. Enormous, beautiful church built in 1905. Greek Revival style.

Hoping it can be rebuilt as the walls are still structurally sound. Will take a lot of money to do so, but I think it's possible. Will be interesting to see what the archdiocese and parishioners decide to do. A lot of decisions need to be made.

 

[eastisbest]

Is that the one holding a bunch of relics?

 

[Tesoro]

Is that the one holding a bunch of relics?

No...that's down the road about a mile....

The relic chapel was the Maria Stein convent. This is the Catholic Church in Maria Stein

 

[Tesoro]

 

[Tesoro]

To make that day even worse...a young man, 22 years old, from the parish, was killed in a car accident earlier that day.

 

[eastisbest]

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Post when they put up a gofundme or however they're going to collect.

 

[Tesoro]

Post when they put up a gofundme or however they're going to collect.

Sure will! Thanks!

 

[Cubsandtigers]

No...that's down the road about a mile....

The relic chapel was the Maria Stein convent. This is the Catholic Church in Maria Stein

Stopped by there on my way home from Cincy about a decade ago. The convent is a fascinating place

 

[Tesoro]

Stopped by there on my way home from Cincy about a decade ago. The convent is a fascinating place

It truly is... more so when it was an active convent

 

[Cubsandtigers]

It truly is... more so when it was an active convent

There’s an active convent with cloistered nuns in Cleveland. They caught me off guard the first time I came across them in my travels.

Few and far between nuns have become.

 

[Irwin20]

Post when they put up a gofundme or however they're going to collect.

They mentioned this at Mass on Sunday at IHM in Anderson Twp. There is a diocesan wide collection at next Sundays Mass.

 

[D4fan]

There’s an active convent with cloistered nuns in Cleveland. They caught me off guard the first time I came across them in my travels.

Few and far between nuns have become.

If you were to make an educated guess, what would the sum of all nuns added together be?

 

[eastisbest]

If you were to make an educated guess, what would the sum of all nuns added together be?

that's a nunsense question.

 

[eastisbest]

Are they building a new church or trying to save the old one?

 

[Irwin20]

Are they building a new church or trying to save the old one?

My understanding is the exterior is able to be saved.

 

[eastisbest]

My understanding is the exterior is able to be saved.

Hopefully they can recreate the interior using the community method. Puts skills to work as it was probably built originally. Getting quality old wood though.... Go tear one up in Indiana and smuggle the booty back over the line.

honestly though. In the cities particularly, the diocese has so many abandoned churches they won't even sell because of ... greed. They're getting salvaged left and tight by meth heads. At least try to find one similar to salvage for Maria Stein.