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Post by Clotilde on May 16, 2019 21:03:57 GMT -5
Forgive me if these are not new to you. I recently heard about Centralia, PA, which is sort of a ghost town. It started as a coal mining town and somehow an underground fire started in the mines, it is still burning under the town and much of it is gone. One of the few remaining buildings is a Ukrainian Catholic Church and the only church left standing. It is not in danger of being consumed by the underground problems and is far away enough from some of the toxic gasses being released in the town. They are slightly liberal but this appears to be a thriving Eastern rite in the middle of nowhere! Valid sacraments at least! Here's the website: www.vpnavy01.com/websites/church/
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Post by Voxxkowalski on May 16, 2019 23:34:42 GMT -5
I went to a beautiful Marian retreat to Our Lady of Perpetual help there. It was on the feast of the Assumption. Beautiful small Church...absolutly not handicapped accessable as the entrance is a near 90 degree slope of steps
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Post by RitaMarita on May 17, 2019 15:48:21 GMT -5
Forgive me if these are not new to you. I recently heard about Centralia, PA, which is sort of a ghost town. It started as a coal mining town and somehow an underground fire started in the mines, it is still burning under the town and much of it is gone. One of the few remaining buildings is a Ukrainian Catholic Church and the only church left standing. It is not in danger of being consumed by the underground problems and is far away enough from some of the toxic gasses being released in the town. They are slightly liberal but this appears to be a thriving Eastern rite in the middle of nowhere! Valid sacraments at least! Here's the website: www.vpnavy01.com/websites/church/How neat that the church survived and Vox has been there! 😁
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Post by Clotilde on May 17, 2019 23:40:50 GMT -5
Another church I came across was Cattolica Di Stilo in the Calabrian region of Southern Italy. There isn't much left in the church besides a few frescos and sadly they have turned it over to UNESCO. However, it is interesting because of the architecture and the age (over 1100 years old). It was built as a Byzantine rite church, possibly later taken over by Mohammedeans, and later used as a Roman rite church. One thing I find interesting is that the Italo-Albanian rite was the more common non-Western rite in Southern Italy, yet this was Greek. I'm sharing the link from Trip Advisor because there are lots of pictures, but you can learn more with a search. www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1193611-d2423962-Reviews-Cattolica_di_Stilo-Stilo_Province_of_Reggio_Calabria_Calabria.html
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