St Helena

R.C.church, Alpine, AZ.

         We sang here for a funeral Mass this morning so I took the opportunity of snapping the interior of this interesting, but acoustically dead, church.

        St Helena just happens to be the patron saint of Colchester, Essex too.

       Cribbed from the CofE, Chelmsford Diocese website:
       "According to legend, St Helena (c 250 - c 330 AD) was born in Colchester and founded the church. Helena is remembered as the Christian mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine, whose decision to cease persecuting Christians encouraged the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire. She is reputed to have travelled to the Holy Land in search of the True Cross (or the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified)."
   






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