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On Ice: & annointing the stone

Stone Conversations : Archive 6 : Message 00510

From: "Ian Marr" <ianmarr@zzzzzzzzzzz>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:07:16 +1000
Subject: On Ice: & annointing the stone

I have just made a brief visit to Sydney, & seen the altar stone I
mentioned. It is at St Patrick's cathedral at Parramatta
(www.parra.catholic.org.au) & the whole series of sacred furniture seemed
very fine & beautiful to me. The stone is a speckled granite, sculpted in
China, the gift of the Chinese parishioners.The ice must have been large: I
have been using Chinese food containers (7.5"\4.5"/2" in Australia) to make
ice for stone settling, or even ice cream containers. When the altar was
blessed, & saturated wih oil, wine, ungents, etc., the sculptor who designed
it nearly had a fit, but it looks fine now: I don't think granite absorbs
much.(It's about 6feet by 6 feet by 3'2"). Regards, Ian Marr.
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to=20 get there!

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