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Inside the nave, stained glass windows proceed from green to red to purple to gold, symbolizing man's progress from youth through middle age and senility to the life hereafter. These towering windows, 70 feet high and eight feet wide, were created by three Britons who have led a dramatic revival of the ancient art of making stained glass: Lawrence Lee, Geoffrey Clarke and Keith New. Behind the high altar will hang British Painter Graham Sutherland's dark green and red tapestry, Christ in Glory, 74 ft. high and 40 ft. across. Already in place on the outside...
Stephen, an obscure Roman presbyter, was elected Pope on March 2-3, 752, but two days later, before he could be crowned, died of apoplexy. His fierce face still stares down at worshipers in the central nave of Rome's St. Paul's Basilica, but the current Yearbook's compiler, Msgr. Angelo Lanzoni, decided that papal coronation should be the criterion...
...protocol, three keys, a special committee including the Archbishop, scholars, Dominican scientists, state officials and, of course, a crowd of curious tourists, the bronze gates and sepulcher doors were unlocked. The crystal-covered ancient lead coffin with its bony contents was placed before me. In the high, arched cathedral nave, through open doors. I had my chance to settle once and for all the mystery; or so I believed...
...this liturgical movement has come a demand for the altar-centered church. In 1942 Roman Catholic St. Mark's in Burlington, Vt. experimented with placing the sanctuary with altar at the crossing of nave and transepts, thus making it visible from three sides. In 1948 the Episcopalians at St. Clement's in Alexandria, Va. placed the altar facing banks of pews. Rector Darby Wood Betts argued that "the Church is first and foremost a family called into being by its Father which is God. Therefore we sit facing one another, rather than looking at the back...
...performing clergy and choir. The clergy, choir and congregation perform together, and God is the audience." So popular, in fact, is St. Anselm's that Bishop Pike now proposes to revamp San Francisco's still unfinished Grace Cathedral to place the high altar at the crossing of nave and transepts...