St Francis Xavier Church (Color Enhanced Version)
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011Check out these Xavier images:
St Francis Xavier Church (Color Enhanced Version)
Image by Raymond Larose
Different angle on the church in Nashua, NH.
Nikon D700 | 15mm | f/6.3 | ISO 200
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Xavier HS students- Alex, Shea, Addison and Hannah
Image by CR Artist
I was on lunch break with my wife at Lindale Mall when I saw these fun young ladies come into Von Maur, the store where my wife works. They were full of life and having fun and I told my wife that it would be so much fun to make a portrait of them. I needed to get going though because I had to teach a piano lesson that afternoon and I thought I had missed my opportunity to take a photo of them. So, being a man who believes in prayer, I simply asked that if I was to meet them and capture a portrait of them that I would be given the opportunity. Well, a few minutes later, I found myself walking outside at the same time they were!
What I really enjoyed about Alex, Shea, Addison & Hannah is that they were out, having fun, being creative and enjoying life! There are so many people who just kind of wallow through life without any real joy or passion. I wish more people would allow themselves to have fun, to put on a wild and fun outfit and simply enjoy life. So.. to anyone who is reading this, I encourage you… let these awesome ladies inspire you! Live your life to the full, have fun, be passionate and fully be you!
Alex, Shea, Addison and Hannah, thanks for making my day and allowing me to make a portrait of you! You all are so cool and I enjoyed meeting you! I've heard awesome things about Xavier Poms and I've always thought highly of XHS. Even though I'm a Warrior at heart… go Saints!! 
This is photo #30 in my 100 strangers assignment. Check out the 100 strangers website to see more pictures and people working on the same assignment!
Interior of St. Francis Xavier Church
Image by elycefeliz
stxchurch.org/
St. Xavier Church is the Jesuit parish in Downtown Cincinnati.
The story of St. Xavier Parish begins in the year 1819 when the seven Catholic families in what is now the Cincinnati Metropolitan area built a church . . . Their first church was a small wooden building built at the corner of Liberty and Vine Streets, where the church of St. Francis Seraph now stands. . . . At the time, Cincinnati was a part of the diocese of Bardstown, Kentucky.
Two years later, in 1821, Cincinnati itself was made the seat of a diocese. Its first bishop was Edward Fenwick, a Dominican priest of the Priory of St. Rose, Kentucky. Bishop Fenwick made his home near what is now Lytle Park. Because of the difficulty of getting to the little church, now his cathedral, especially over the mud roads of winter, Bishop Fenwick purchased the Sycamore Street site and had the little cathedral put on rollers and moved . . .
Bishop Fenwick died in 1832 and was succeeded by Bishop John B. Purcell. Bishop Purcell bought additional property on Sycamore Street next to his cathedral and established a seminary and college there. Then, in 1840, he brought in the Jesuits to run the college and seminary. Meanwhile, he had begun to build a new cathedral at Eighth and Plum. When it was dedicated in 1845, the title of St. Peter-in-Chains was given to it. The church and college on Sycamore was placed under the patronage of St. Francis Xavier.
By 1856 the number of people attending St. Xavier Church was so great that a new building was planned. The building was begun in 1858 . . . In 1861, Bishop Purcell celebrated the first Mass in the great new church. . .
The current church building remained basically unchanged from 1883 until the directives of Vatican II called for a rearrangement of worship space. . . . The most striking change was the redecoration of the church. It had been all beige with no color except for panels of cherry red atop the arches of the nave, and a section of cherry red carpet in the sanctuary. The architect chose bold colors that enhance the architecture and that reflect the medieval custom of enlivening great churches with strong colors.
