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FROM THE ARCHIVEFeb 15, 1927·Washington, District of Columbia

CATHEDRALS BUILT ON FAITH

Scanned from Evening Star, Feb 15, 1927
CATHEDRALS BUILT ON FAITH
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12 SAYS CATHEDRALS ERECTED ON FAITH Artist Holds Peasants Used Little Art in Building Great Edifices. The great cathedrals of Europe were built by peasants who had a fervent faith rather than a knowledge of drawing architecture and sculpture us those arts are known today de clared lon Dabo. New York artist and mural painter in a lecture on. The Art of Beuron at the May flower Hotel last night when a recep tion was given in honor of.

Right Rev Raphael Walzer Archabbot of theßen odictlne Monastery at lleuron Ger many. No mathematics ever built a church declared. Mr Dabo and the art of those simple people who built Hie great church masterpieces was born of an intimate knowledge of God tiie Blessed Virgin and the saints theirs was a living faith Holds Beauty Essential. Mr Dabo declared that churches Should be made as beautiful as it is possible to make them contending that they are museums to which men go for spiritual uplift and that sur rounded with beauty for the time spent w ithin such strictures a greater spirit of religion can be obtained for religion is spiritual and art is spiritual True beauty need cost no.

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