Word: badine
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Shortly after the Cathedral was dedicated (1819), Bishop Flaget sent three young priests to Europe to buy "church furniture." Father Nerinck bought 100 pictures. Father Badin bought 40. There are no records to show whether their purchases reached Kentucky...
...governmental records of Louis Philippe's sending the pictures; the customs' invoice for the articles consigned to Bishop Flaget does not enumerate the articles, name the shipper. 4) It is likely that the St. Joseph's pictures are part of the 140 bought by Fathers Badin and Nerinck. Nowhere in the history of art is there any record of any of the masters painting any of the pictures at Bardstown. But whether the story is fact or fiction, Bardstown proudly exhibits its Cathedral with the pictures, gift of Louis Philippe, King of France, hanging too high...
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