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Chapel of the Holy Cross
How the chapel came into being by Marguerite Brunswick study – in order to relate the story of this church, we must turn back to pages of time… 25 years have gone to engender this moment.
The first concept came to me in 1932. I was in New York, watching the newly completed Empire State building. When viewed from a certain angle, across seem to impose itself, through the very core of the structure. What an idea for a church! For days at haunted in obsessed me, insisting on taking shape.
Being a sculptor, I visualize the model in sculpture terms. Using simple, bold, strokes, sketch was made… The result being a cruciform church… in plan and elevation. This was not a natural and logical expression of the sign upon which every Catholic Church is built? Unfortunately, the leaf motif is lost in construction, so much so that a cross has to research itself on spires. This is particularly apparent in the light of St. Patrick's cathedral, which is exhausted itself in copying the Gothic, instead of bravely pioneering, giving an expression of the day in contemporary language, as did its laity neighbor, the Rockefeller center.
All the more reason to start the ball rolling. My schedule is seen by Loyd Wright, which truck by the idea. Together we interpreted the terms of a modern skyscraper cathedral to a 500 foot scale. He built the first architectural model with the articulated cross, the whole structure lined in class and perforated stone screen. This was to encircle one square city block. By 1937 this plan was excepted and to be built in Budapest or one of the hills overlooking the Danube. The worst soon put a stop to the dream.
Having lain dormant for seven years, thirds of making this church he reality and get started if Ruben come out when seeing what Assis and Vence have meant in liturgical church movement. Should not we in America also have a national shrine were God can be worshipped as a contemporary? Would this not bring him closer to each and every one of us? Having a ranch in Arizona in the Oak Creek Canyon, an abundance of spectacular sites percent of them selves and seem to be calling for the existence of a shrine.
Together with the architects, Anshen & Allen, we prospected the country, deciding on a twin-pinnacle spur, about 250 feet high, jetting out of thousand foot rock wall, solid as the "Rock of Peter." This was to be the pedestal wherein to plant our cross.
However, being government property, it took practically an act of Congress to receive a deed and building permit. Thanks to Senator Goldwater's recommendation, the church could proceed. Plans were started in 1953, completed in '54. Having been approved by Bishop Espelage, the building was handed to the William Simpson construction company who broke ground April, 1955, and the structure was completed in April, 1956. The chapel was built as a memorial to my father and mother… Lucien and Marguerite Brunswig.
The accomplishment of this dream was made possible, when sculptor and architects met, uncommon ground the sculpture they became the donor and passed on her visionary to architects who sublimated it in terms of trance send a form. It is now a monolith with the Christian connotations of the one cross… Organic to the structure. When we consider that just as the sole inhibit habits, a human frame, and the house is built to shelter that frame, it is the mission of the church to shelter, and inspire both soul and body. Therefore, should not only be a monumental faith, but a spiritual fortress, so charged with God, that it spurs man's spirit Godward!
Throughout the ages, the church has not only been a patron, sponsoring the arts, but has used architecture, sculpture, and painting to illustrate her teachings, thus proving the truth is beauty through her prayers in color and stone. In like manner, she uses the Gregorian chant to Les, open the ways of the heart and soul of man, allowing her liturgy to flow through the very channels of Huseby.
Having prepared the ground, receipt is Teigen Road, grown and invaded the world. May this chapel spread these same truths a thousandfold… Fighting Christ through art.
As an artist, this is my offering… "_Ad majorem Dei gloriam_"… And answer to the one who, in order to save us, stretched out his arms on the cross.
Though Catholic in faith, as a work of art the chapel has universal appeal. It's doors Will ever be open to one and all, regardless of creed. That the church may come to life in the souls of men, and be a living reality… Here by lies the whole message of this chapel…
Marguerite Brunswig Staude.
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