A newly commissioned mural at New York’s renowned St Patrick’s Cathedral will pay tribute to immigrants in the city, including a depiction of the Holy Apparition at Knock, reports Breaking News.
The Apparition at Knock refers to a 1879 event where 15 villagers in Knock, County Mayo, claimed to witness an appearance of the Virgin Mary, accompanied by St Joseph and St John the Evangelist.
Today, the site is a significant Catholic pilgrimage destination, reports Breaking News.
Cardinal Timothy M Dolan, the archbishop of New York, has initiated the creation of a mural inside St Patrick’s Cathedral that portrays the arrival of immigrants in both the 19th century and modern times.
Speaking to The New York Times, Cardinal Dolan expressed that the polarized conversation about immigration during the Trump era did not deter him, reports Breaking News.
“I wanted something that people could look at and see the Holy Apparition at Knock, and not that you’d have to be on LSD to figure it out,” Cardinal Dolan told The New York Times, reports Breaking News.
The mural’s artist, Adam Cvijanovic, said the mural will include “large panels \[that] will depict a group of 19th-century Irish immigrants, dressed in the bonnets, pinafores and caps of the period, as they descend from a ship that still holds many yet to disembark”, reports Breaking News.
“I wanted this to be cool and blue,” Mr Cvijanovic said. “And I wanted it to evoke an old film. It’s also what they were wearing. This is before bright dyes. The colors were very muted,” reports Breaking News.
St Patrick’s Cathedral’s cornerstone was placed in 1858, and it officially opened in 1879. Over 160 years ago, Archbishop John Hughes announced the plan to build this “new” cathedral, as the original structure could no longer accommodate New York’s growing Catholic community.
Archbishop Hughes was originally from County Tyrone before he emigrated to the United States, reports Breaking News.
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