Sunday, August 28, 2011

The Museum at St. Mary in the Mountains


If you get a chance to see the museum beneath St. Mary in the Mountains in Virginia City, you won't regret it.  Sandy and I stopped in yesterday.  These vestments date from just before the fire that destroyed the church in 1875:


And this is from a room full of murals, including this life-sized one of Fr. (later Bishop) Patrick Manogue.

More info here.

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