DOCSLIB.ORG

Scanned History Update.Pdf

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Scanned History Update.Pdf Contents Introduction from Bishop L.McCartie. ...................................................................................................................... 5 Preface. .................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Chapter 1 1912-1919 .................................................................................................................................................... 7 Catholics in Foleshill in 1912 ................................................................................................................................ 7 Father Emery ......................................................................................................................................................... 8 Arrival in Coventry ................................................................................................................................................. 8 Tivoli ...................................................................................................................................................................... 10 The Church ........................................................................................................................................................... 11 Finance ................................................................................................................................................................. 11 The School ........................................................................................................................................................... 13 Return to Walsall ................................................................................................................................................. 13 New Church.......................................................................................................................................................... 14 Chapter 2 1919-1935 Saint Elizabeth’s Parish ......................................................................................................... 17 St. Elizabeth's Football Club ............................................................................................................................... 18 Parish Socials and Events .................................................................................................................................. 18 C.Y.M.S. ............................................................................................................................................................... 19 Saint Elizabeth’s School 1919 - 1935 ................................................................................................................ 20 Health and Welfare .............................................................................................................................................. 20 Chapter 3 1935 - 1945 ................................................................................................................................................ 21 Chapter 4 1945-1958 .................................................................................................................................................. 23 The School ........................................................................................................................................................... 24 St.Elizabeth's Youth Group, Drama Section ..................................................................................................... 26 St. Elizabeth's Guide Company 1932 - 1987 .................................................................................................... 28 The Little Sisters of theAssumption.................................................................................................................... 29 Chapter 5 1958-1966 .................................................................................................................................................. 31 Chapter 6 1966-1977 .................................................................................................................................................. 34 Chapter 7 1977-1987 .................................................................................................................................................. 37 References: .................................................................................................................................................................. 38 Page 2 of 39 Page 3 of 39 Page 4 of 39 Introduction from Bishop L.McCartie. "I write to welcome the history of the Parish of St. Elizabeth, Coventry. It has a very special interest for me because when I was ordained in 1949 my first appointment was to St. Elizabeth. Mgr.Laurence Emery was my Parish Priest, and Fr.Diamond and Fr.McTernan were my fellow curates. From them and from the people of the parish I received many kindnesses and a great deal of valuable guidance. My stay at St. Elizabeths was a very happy one. I'm sure that when I express my own gratitude I speak for the many priests who have served St Elizabeth's over the last 75 years. As you will read in the history, the Parish of St. Elizabeths has been richly blessed by God in days gone by, may He guide it and cherish it in the years to come. + Leo, Bishop of Elmham, Auxiliary in B'ham. Preface. "In one sense, it seems a long time since March 1987, when the idea of this history was first thought about and planned; but so much hard work has gone on since then that the time seems to have flown by. My thanks to the team who have done most of the work alongside the many other jobs that they have: Philip Newbold, Frank Hughes, Leo Poole, Sister Mary, Marjorie Bowen and Margaret Raftery. With them, my own personal thanks to my typist who patiently translates my writing before she can type. And thanks to you all, young and old members of this great parish of St. Elizabeth, who gave up your time to answer questions, find photographs and drag up memories of long ago so that they could find a place in this history of the Parish. I think that it has all been worth-while. I hope you do also. Fr. G. Hanlon, Oct. 14th 1987 Page 5 of 39 Page 6 of 39 Chapter 1 1912-1919 So begins the Mission in the Foleshill area. The mission which was to become known as "The Good Shepherd, Saints Elizabeth and Helen". However, to the many thousands who have lived and worked in the parish, to those who have worshipped God in the Church and to those who have attended the school; it is known as St Elizabeth’s. St. Elizabeth's – Exterior from Highfield Street In June 1912, Father Leonard Shepherd Emery was appointed by the then Arch¬bishop of Birmingham, Edward Ilsley to found a Mission in the Foleshill area. The letter of appointment stated that "the task is an arduous one" and "everything has to be created". Indeed it did, much money had to be raised and the land had to be bought, church, school and presbytery had to be built. When Father Emery arrived in the north of Coventry in July 1912 he found a thriving and busy area. Factories and workplaces were abounding in the Great Heath and Edgwick areas. Little Heath, Bell Green, Longford and Holbrook areas, which were outside the City of Coventry, also housed industry. Earlier and more detailed histories of Coventry give accounts of the growth and development of many industries. Numerous activities have long gone and remain but facts in history. Many names and occupations will kindle memories for people in the area and within the city. Pennies earned from these factories will have gone to the building and maintenance of St. Elizabeth's over its seventy five years. There were concrete works at Great Heath and Edgwick in 1902. 1908 saw the arrival of Shank's Timber Yard in Lockhurst Lane. Courtaulds had established their first rayon factory next to the canal on the Foleshill Road in 1904. Northey Road saw the arrival of Webster and Bennetts in 1887. White and Poppe on Holbrook Lane and more heavy industry with Albion Drop Forgings Company in Lockhurst Lane in 1900. The Victoria County History of Warwick also refers to the presence of Sterling Metals in 1907 and "a foundry at Edgwick in 1900" built by Alfred Herbert's Engineering. Radenite Batteries Factory and offices were built about 1897 at the junction of Great Heath and Edgwick. This building can still be seen today at the junction of Foleshill and Blackwell Roads. With the advent and growth of these industries, housing was needed for those who worked in the factories. By 1912 the Ordnance Factory may well have sought some of its workers from the Peel Street and Mulliner Street areas. There were many properties and side streets too along the Stoney Stanton Road as far as the City boundary with Foleshill Rural District at Court House Green. There had been newer "residential roads" (1) Station Street East and partly built St. Paul's Road. Many new terraced properties had been constructed in Princess Street. Evidence of this is shown on the stone name blocks above the houses. It is also interesting to note that Eld Road was then named Highfield Street and what is now St. Elizabeth's Road was originally called Stanley Street. Fr.Emery's new area of pastoral concern was indeed large, covering part of three main roads-, Stoney Stanton, Foleshill and Lockhurst Lane. The Great Heath and Edgwick areas perhaps outlined the most intense areas of
Load more

Recommended publications
  • A Building Stone Atlas of Warwickshire
    Strategic Stone Study A Building Stone Atlas of Warwickshire First published by English Heritage May 2011 Rebranded by Historic England December 2017 Introduction The landscape in the county is clearly dictated by the Cob was suitable for small houses but when more space was underlying geology which has also had a major influence on needed it became necessary to build a wooden frame and use the choice of building stones available for use in the past. The wattle fencing daubed with mud as the infilling or ‘nogging’ to geological map shows that much of this generally low-lying make the walls. In nearly all surviving examples the wooden county is underlain by the red mudstones of the Triassic Mercia frame was built on a low plinth wall of whatever stone was Mudstone Group. This surface cover is however, broken in the available locally. In many cases this is the only indication we Nuneaton-Coventry-Warwick area by a narrow strip of ancient have of the early use of local stones. Adding the stone wall rocks forming the Nuneaton inlier (Precambrian to early served to protect the wooden structure from rising damp. The Devonian) and the wider exposure of the unconformably infilling material has often been replaced later with more overlying beds of the Warwickshire Coalfield (Upper durable brickwork or stone. Sometimes, as fashion or necessity Carboniferous to early Permian). In the south and east of the dictated, the original timber framed walls were encased in county a series of low-lying ridges are developed marking the stone or brick cladding, especially at the front of the building outcrops of the Lower and Middle Jurassic limestone/ where it was presumably a feature to be admired.
    [Show full text]
  • The Church and Health Care an Appeal to the Silent Priests and Bishops
    Preserving Christian Publications, Inc. TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC BOOKS Specializing in Used and Out-of-Print Titles Catalog 183 January-February 2018 PCP, Inc. is a tax-exempt not-for-profit corporation devoted to the preservation of our Catholic heritage. All charitable contributions toward the used-book and publishing activities of PCP (not including payments for book purchases) are tax-deductible. The Church and Health Care An Appeal to the Silent Priests and Bishops The political debate taking place in the United States regarding against the Church and Christian Civilization, a theme that some health care, as Juan Donoso Cortés wrote regarding all political might think is a problem of the past, two and a half decades after the questions, is ultimately a theological or religious question. A century fall of the Soviet Union. But the British case of government control ago American Catholic author James J. Walsh, in his book The over the life of an infant demonstrates the continuing threat of Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries, devoted a chapter to the theme of socialism, and the spreading of the errors of Russia foretold by Our “City Hospitals – Organized Charity.” In it he showed how the Lady at Fatima. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira’s 1976 book added a Church in the Middle Ages created organized medical care, in the subtitle of central significance in the present debate: An Appeal to form the modern world now knows and from which it continues to the Silent Bishops. The author recognized that there were divisions benefit. Even in the United States, a non-Catholic country, Catholic within the hierarchy of the Church regarding the contemporary hospitals constitute a major sector of the nation’s health care system.
    [Show full text]
  • Bibliography19802017v2.Pdf
    A LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ON THE HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE, PUBLISHED 1980–2017 An amalgamation of annual bibliographies compiled by R.J. Chamberlaine-Brothers and published in Warwickshire History since 1980, with additions from readers. Please send details of any corrections or omissions to [email protected] The earlier material in this list was compiled from the holdings of the Warwickshire County Record Office (WCRO). Warwickshire Library and Information Service (WLIS) have supplied us with information about additions to their Local Studies material from 2013. We are very grateful to WLIS for their help, especially Ms. L. Essex and her colleagues. Please visit the WLIS local studies web pages for more detailed information about the variety of sources held: www.warwickshire.gov.uk/localstudies A separate page at the end of this list gives the history of the Library collection, parts of which are over 100 years old. Copies of most of these published works are available at WCRO or through the WLIS. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust also holds a substantial local history library searchable at http://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/. The unpublished typescripts listed below are available at WCRO. A ABBOTT, Dorothea: Librarian in the Land Army. Privately published by the author, 1984. 70pp. Illus. ABBOTT, John: Exploring Stratford-upon-Avon: Historical Strolls Around the Town. Sigma Leisure, 1997. ACKROYD, Michael J.M.: A Guide and History of the Church of Saint Editha, Amington. Privately published by the author, 2007. 91pp. Illus. ADAMS, A.F.: see RYLATT, M., and A.F. Adams: A Harvest of History. The Life and Work of J.B.
    [Show full text]
  • The First Parish Book of St. John the Baptist Coventry 1734 - 1752
    The First Parish Book of St. John the Baptist Coventry 1734 - 1752 Births Marriages & Burials The Damaged Text by W.A. Bottrill The First Parish Book of St John’s Coventry is kept at Warwick Archives. It is on restricted access as the early pages have badly faded (some pages appear to be completely blank to the naked eye!). Having ancestors in Coventry around the time this register was compiled, I was naturally interested in the contents! Firstly I looked to see if someone had made a copy of the book at Coventry archives, but it appears it has not been transcribed; next I viewed a film copy of the actual register also in Coventry archive. This shows why there is no transcription as pages have deteriorated badly over the years, it is almost impossible to keep track of the entries and dates, compounded by worn film and equipment. I understand these films at Coventry archives were produced by the L.D.S., or a company working for them, in the 1960’s. Next I looked up the Bishop’s Transcripts (they are also on film at Coventry archives) but unfortunately, I found these records only start at 1752 for St John’s, it appears the earlier rolls have been misplaced or lost over the years. These transcripts would have been a copy of the register (I was even more convinced that my missing ancestors would be in this damaged section of the parish book!). I did not want to give up on this just yet, so e-mailed Warwick archives and asked if l could view the actual register, hoping that the L.D.S.
    [Show full text]
  • Pevsner's Architectural Glossary
    Glossary pages new extra text:Layout 1 10/9/10 16:22 Page 1 PEVSNER’S ARCHITECTURAL GLOSSARY Glossary pages new extra text:Layout 1 10/9/10 16:22 Page 2 Nikolaus and Lola Pevsner, Hampton Court, in the gardens by Wren's east front, probably c. Glossary pages new extra text:Layout 1 10/9/10 16:22 Page 3 PEVSNER’S ARCHITECTURAL GLOSSARY Yale University Press New Haven and London Glossary pages new extra text:Layout 1 10/9/10 16:22 Page 4 Temple Street, New Haven Bedford Square, London www.pevsner.co.uk www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk www.yalebooks.co.uk www.yalebooks.com for Published by Yale University Press Copyright © Yale University, Printed by T.J. International, Padstow Set in Monotype Plantin All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections and of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers Glossary pages new extra text:Layout 1 10/9/10 16:22 Page 5 CONTENTS GLOSSARY Glossary pages new extra text:Layout 1 10/9/10 16:22 Page 6 FOREWORD The first volumes of Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England series appeared in .The intention was to make available, county by county, a comprehensive guide to the notable architecture of every period from prehistory to the present day. Building types, details and other features that would not necessarily be familiar to the general reader were explained in a compact glossary, which in the first editions extended to some terms.
    [Show full text]
  • Download Coventry HLC Report
    COVENTRY HISTORIC LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISATION FINAL REPORT English Heritage Project Number 5927 First published by Coventry City Council 2013 Coventry City Council Place Directorate Development Management Civic Centre 4 Much Park Street Coventry CV1 2PY © Coventry City Council, 2013. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, including photocopying or recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without the permission in writing from the Publishers. DOI no. 10.5284/1021108 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Coventry Historic Landscape Characterisation study was funded by English Heritage as part of a national programme and was carried out by the Conservation and Archaeology Team of Coventry City Council. Eloise Markwick as Project Officer compiled the database and undertook work on the Character Area profiles before leaving the post. Anna Wilson and Chris Patrick carried out the subsequent analysis of the data, completed the Character Area profiles and compiled the final report. Thanks are due to Ian George and Roger M Thomas of English Heritage who commissioned the project and provided advice throughout. Front cover images: Extract of Board of Health Map showing Broadgate in 1851 Extract of Ordnance Survey map showing Broadgate in 1951 Extract of aerial photograph showing Broadgate in 2010 CONTENTS Page 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Background 1 1.2 Location and Context 1 1.3 Coventry HLC: Aims, Objectives and Access to the Dataset 3 2. Coventry’s Prehistory and History 4 2.1 Prehistory 4 2.2 The Early Medieval/Saxon Period 5 2.3 The Medieval Period (1066-1539) 6 2.4 The Post Medieval Period (1540-1836) 8 2.5 Mid to Late 19th Century and Beginning of the 20th Century (1837-1905) 10 2.6 The First Half of the 20th Century (1906-1955) 12 2.7 Second Half of the 20th Century (1955-present) 13 3.
    [Show full text]
  • West Midlands European Regional Development Fund Operational Programme
    Regional Competitiveness and Employment Objective 2007 – 2013 West Midlands European Regional Development Fund Operational Programme Version 3 July 2012 CONTENTS 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 – 5 2a SOCIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS - ORIGINAL 2.1 Summary of Eligible Area - Strengths and Challenges 6 – 14 2.2 Employment 15 – 19 2.3 Competition 20 – 27 2.4 Enterprise 28 – 32 2.5 Innovation 33 – 37 2.6 Investment 38 – 42 2.7 Skills 43 – 47 2.8 Environment and Attractiveness 48 – 50 2.9 Rural 51 – 54 2.10 Urban 55 – 58 2.11 Lessons Learnt 59 – 64 2.12 SWOT Analysis 65 – 70 2b SOCIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS – UPDATED 2010 2.1 Summary of Eligible Area - Strengths and Challenges 71 – 83 2.2 Employment 83 – 87 2.3 Competition 88 – 95 2.4 Enterprise 96 – 100 2.5 Innovation 101 – 105 2.6 Investment 106 – 111 2.7 Skills 112 – 119 2.8 Environment and Attractiveness 120 – 122 2.9 Rural 123 – 126 2.10 Urban 127 – 130 2.11 Lessons Learnt 131 – 136 2.12 SWOT Analysis 137 - 142 3 STRATEGY 3.1 Challenges 143 - 145 3.2 Policy Context 145 - 149 3.3 Priorities for Action 150 - 164 3.4 Process for Chosen Strategy 165 3.5 Alignment with the Main Strategies of the West 165 - 166 Midlands 3.6 Development of the West Midlands Economic 166 Strategy 3.7 Strategic Environmental Assessment 166 - 167 3.8 Lisbon Earmarking 167 3.9 Lisbon Agenda and the Lisbon National Reform 167 Programme 3.10 Partnership Involvement 167 3.11 Additionality 167 - 168 4 PRIORITY AXES Priority 1 – Promoting Innovation and Research and Development 4.1 Rationale and Objective 169 - 170 4.2 Description of Activities
    [Show full text]
  • Oak House 3 the Cunnery Kenilworth
    Oak House 3 The Cunnery Kenilworth Internal Page Single Pic Full Oak House is situated in a small exclusive development of modern properties constructed in 2002 by Charles Church. The property lies on the edge of Stoneleigh Abbey Park which was designed by Humphrey Repton around the Grade I listed Stoneleigh Abbey buildings. First paragraph, editorial style, short, considered headline benefitsConveniently of living situated here. withOne easy or two access sentences to Leamington that convey Spa, what youWarwick would and say Coventry in person. and for the commuter, the M40 (J15) is 8 miles away. There are trains to London, Birmingham, NEC and SecondBirmingham paragraph, International additional Airport details from of either note aboutCoventry the train property.station, Leamington Wording to addSpa valueor Warwick and support Parkway. image selection. Tem volum is solor si aliquation rempore puditiunto qui utatis adit,There animporepro are a number experit of excellent et dolupta schools ssuntio in the mos area apieturere including ommostiWarwick Foundation squiati busdaecus Schools, cus King dolorporum Henrys in Coventryvolutem. and Princethorpe School. Third paragraph, additional details of note about the property. Wording to add value and support image selection. Tem volum is solor si aliquation rempore puditiunto qui utatis adit, animporepro experit et dolupta ssuntio mos apieturere ommosti squiati busdaecus cus dolorporum volutem. 5-6XXX3-4 4 X GreatKenilworth Missenden 2.5 miles, 1.5 miles, Leamington London Spa Marlebone 4 miles, 39Warwick minutes, 4.5 Amershammiles, M40 6.5(J15) miles, 8 miles, M40 Stratford J4 10 miles, upon Beaconsfield Avon 13 miles, 11 miles, M25Birmingham j18 13 miles, International Central London Airport 36 15 miles miles (all (distances distances and and time timesapproximate) are approximate).
    [Show full text]
  • Irish Narratives: Liverpool in the 1930S
    Irish narratives: Liverpool in the 1930s John Davies By the 1930s there had been a substantial Irish community in Liverpool for over a hundred years. Irish immigration into Liverpool grew steadily from the 1 790s and expanded rapidly with the onset of famine in Ireland in the 1840s. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, years of economic depression, there was a renewed wave of Irish migration to Britain in general, and to Liverpool in particular, as migration into the United States was choked off. Relations between the Irish community, largely Catholic and poor and unskilled, and the majority community had been notoriously difficult in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the history of the city was scarred by incidents of sectarian violence.1 The increase in migration in the 1930s was accompanied by growing tension between the majority and the Irish community. This article seeks to explore how the majority community in Liverpool viewed the Irish, how these views were articulated and what ‘stories’ were commonly told about the Irish. In recent years sociologists and cultural historians, referring to such ‘stories’ as ‘discourses’ and ‘narratives’, have seen them as ‘providing models of social experi­ ence’ as well as attempts to shape and control opinions.2 1 F. Neal, Sectarian violence: The Liverpool experience 18 19 -19 14 (Manchester, 1988); P. J. Waller, Democracy and sectarianism: A political and social history of Liverpool 1868-1939 (Liverpool, 1981); J. Belchem, Merseypride: Essays in Liverpool exceptionalism (Liverpool, 2000). 2 Christopher Sauer, ‘Newspaper style and Nazi propaganda’ in W. Van Peer ed., The taming of the text: Explanations in language, literature and culture (London, 1988), p.
    [Show full text]
  • Erdington Abbey 1850-1876-2001
    Erdington Abbey 1850-1876-2001 Michael Hodgetts Benedictine History Symposium 2001 ERDINGTON ABBEY, 1850-1876-2001 Michael Hodgetts From 1876 until 1922, the arch-abbey of Beuron in Württemberg had a daughter-house in England at Erdington, four and a half miles north-east of Birmingham. The parish is still universally known as ‘the Abbey’, although it has been served by Redemptorists since 1922 and the claustral buildings were sold to a local school in 1994. The church itself celebrated its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary on 11 June last year: it was built by a wealthy Tractarian convert, Daniel Henry Haigh, on whose retirement in 1876 it was taken over by the Benedictines from Beuron. My parents were married there in 1934, and I have known it since 1942. So I was delighted when Abbot Scott asked me to mark the anniversary by a contribution to this Symposium. Until the 19th century, Erdington was merely a hamlet in the huge medieval parish of Aston, which included all the countryside between Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield, seven miles to the north-east and for several miles to the east as well. There had been recusant gentry within three or four miles, but not in Erdington itself. About 1690 Andrew Bromwich established a Masshouse at (Old) Oscott, now known as Maryvale, three miles north-west, in Handsworth parish, which, like Erdington, is now a suburb of Birmingham. Even in 1767, however, only two Papists were reported in the whole of Aston parish, though in Sutton Coldfield there were thirty, and in Birmingham and Edg-baston, on the far side of it, there were well over three hundred.
    [Show full text]
  • St. George's, Bruce Mines, ' Celebrates Looth Anniversary
    '-.. Official Publication of the Diocese of Algoma Volume 31 OCTOBER, 1984 Number 8 By The Reverend Bennett and by members of just driven through the town memory. Canon G. W. Suthedand the school that our Bishop Old Mill Motel, a very good the parish. Hospitality was on the highway, but never From the opening buffet contributed much to its suc­ Motel , which was only a On Monday afternoon, provided so generously by taking time to turn in to visit .dinner held at the Rectory, September loth, clergy from cess by being with us and short walk away from St. St. Saviour's, who treated the community. Blind River the whole parish rallied to snaring responsibility Saviour's Church and Hall around the Diocese began the clergy royally from the proved to be an excellent feed some sixty participants arriving at St. Saviour's through his meditations. As . where all the action took moment they arrived. For site for the Clergy School, in the school. All meals were is often the case at clergy place. parish, Blind River, for the . many of the Diocesan and the warm welcome served in the Parish Hall Clergy School. They were gatherings, there was an op­ The ladies and some of the clergy, this was their first which the parishioners gave where the sessions were also portunity to raise the voice gentlemen of the Parish pro­ welcomed by the incumbent, visit to the community of to this Diocesan event will held. It was impressive to the Reverend A. V. "Terri' in song, and this we did, so vided the meals and regaled Blind River, many having always remain as a happy see the men of the parish as ably led by the Reverend our · first evening with a well as the women working William Ellam who provided smorgasbord in the Rectory.
    [Show full text]
  • A Journey Through Sacred Space: Medieval Tree and Cross Symbolism in the Apse Mosaic and Floor of San Clemente in Rome Joe Hartm
    1 A Journey through Sacred Space: Medieval Tree and Cross Symbolism in the Apse Mosaic and Floor of San Clemente in Rome Joe Hartman PhD candidate, Art History, Southern Methodist University Introduction: Cross, Tree, and Vine Symbolism in the Church of San Clemente In medieval Rome, the cross – also called the lignum vitae (tree or wood of life) – represented a Christian belief that the sins of humankind, associated with the tree of knowledge, were overcome through Christ’s sacrifice.1 The cross and vine in the apse mosaic of the twelfth- century church of San Clemente in Rome are a case in point (Figs. 1-2). In the center of the mosaic, on top of a gold inlaid background, Christ appears crucified on a black cross. A lush, green acanthus plant grows beneath him. Sinuous vines surround the cross on either side. The mosaic’s theme follows a typical fourth- or fifth-century configuration, which likens the emblematic cross to the paradisiacal “Tree of Life.”2 The visually literate laity of the twelfth century would have understood the image as a symbol of redemption and renewal. As such, the apse mosaic also depicts the cross as the Vine of Christ that abundantly provides the wine of the Eucharist and represents Christ’s sacrificial blood.3 The ornament and furnishings of San Clemente emphasize this central tree and vine motif. For example, San Clemente’s iconographic 1 All translations are the authors’ own. For more on the semiotics of the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge, see Gerhart Ladner’s influential article “Medieval and Modern Understanding of Symbolism: A Comparison.” Speculum 54/ 2 (1979), 223-256.
    [Show full text]