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Of the last Mystery Photo, Lou Camerio, Lilburn writes: “It is St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Macon Church, where Dee and I were married 52 years ago. Our son and daughter-in-law were married there also. One does not have to travel to Europe to see a beautiful church.” The photo came from the editor.
Sara Rawlins of Lawrenceville says: “You really can’t miss seeing the twin towers from anywhere in Macon since they are the tallest structures in Macon. The church itself is the third tallest building in Macon. There are 60 stain-glass windows, a white Carrara Marble altar and pulpit and a pipe organ with 1,000 pipes.”
Others getting the correct identity include Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Mark Smith, Eatonton; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex.
Rising 200 feet into the air, the twin cross-topped spires of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church add great beauty to the skyline of downtown Macon. This old Romanesque, Neo-Gothic church was the realization of an earlier dream of 50 Catholic parishioners and their first priest, Father James Graham. In 1841, this small group of Catholics had bought a Presbyterian church and started the first Catholic parish in Macon, a town incorporated as a city only 17 years earlier. The site of the present church was selected and the negotiations were completed when Father Joseph Winkelried, S.J., became pastor. The foundation of the church was laid in August, 1889.
Peel adds: “The initial services began in the basement of the church on June 16, 1892, and continued there until the church was completed on November 15, 1903. There are over 60 stained glass windows in the church, most of which are from Munich, Germany. While the white marble carvings, statues, and altars are from Italian quarries, the columns themselves are all from Georgia quarries.”
William Day DAR chapter places wreaths at Duluth cemetery
Duluth’s William Day Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, held their first Wreaths Across America ceremony at the Duluth Cemetery on December 17. Besides the chapter, employees and friends of Deloitte helped sponsor and place 102 wreaths throughout the cemetery on veterans’ graves, assisted by Scout Troops 419 and 420 from Duluth First United Methodist Church. Chapter members participating, on the front row, were Renee Covey, Jane E. Moore, Jane A. Moore, Regent Debbie Bush, Susan Baker and Cathy Thompson. On the back row were Debbie Kyle, Sara Burns, Pat Farren, Susan Chastain and Judy York.
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