This area is built for holidays, transient and commercial. It is a lovely area, warm, bright and carefree but the church we found today was quite surprising. It had an unimposing structure, nautical with portal windows at the top, but it was simply beautiful. Heavy cast doors and stain glass windows from Italy, elegant statuary an open classic interior; it was inspiring.
The congregation was young--Opus Dei or winners of national fertility contests--with countless kids-twins and triplets with unruffled parents.
The church is a basilica; it has no congregation, no parish.
It just is there.
The congregation was young--Opus Dei or winners of national fertility contests--with countless kids-twins and triplets with unruffled parents.
The church is a basilica; it has no congregation, no parish.
It just is there.
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