Show i Sculptured Group Abo Above Aboe e Entrance to St Marys arys Cathedral CathedralS S 7 I i 2 fr r e i r r 7 v 4 4 c 3 q l 4 S s k kr r 1 1 2 r i I c cf f I t tS S Sj So S j i o r 4 I 2 4 Jt f fi i S 4 I 5 4 tc l r rk rI r L r Y k 7 A c I 4 41 j v j i Y hv ht v r The Crucifixion the sculptured group above the of the now new Catholic cathedral path dral was completed Fri Friday Friday Friday day by b the sculptor Louis K rb r of ot Switzerland and und unveiled u veiled to be photo photographed photographed graphed It Ans as recover recovered d however r and will be unveiled with fitting cere ceremony ceremony mony man at the opening enin of the cathedral next net ne t Easter Ea ter The group was executed from granite by the sculptor after four months til t t il with the mallet and chisel The work was begun by J T H Whitehouse who had not completed the preliminary out outlines outlines outlines lines ok o the piece at the time of his death and Mr Ir Kerber came from Swit Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland to finish it The figures in the group roup are life size and carved cared from the rock directly above the main entrance of the th ca CR cathedral cathedral thedral The sculpture is regarded by and it makes make grimes critics as a u l e r B 11 fitting ornament to the entrance of the beautiful edifice The scene Is very to the fa a ous i painting of the crucifixion by Raphael and represents Christ at the very moment of his death The Virgin Mary is i at the right of the dying d ing Christ and tire th Apostle John at the left with Mary Magdalene Q bing at the foot of the cross The Fhe hills around Calvary are in the foreground with the build buildings buildings buildIngs ings of Jerusalem in the distance The group is and can cannot cannot cannot not but excite pious thoughts in i the minds of the communicants as fiS they en enter enter enter ter the church Something of the sculptors own religious fervor seems to have been imparted to the Images of his sacred parsonages p The Te T p expressions on or the faces of the figures of rock are tre wonderful The be benign benign benign peaceful expression of the Savior dying ying for the love of man is almost perfect The great task of the artist was to give to the countenance hewer hewel from stone the peace and repose of a dying deity not of a dying ding man and he succeeded admirably To the mother of Christ he gives a look of absolute re resignation resignation resignation as well wen as of prayerful adora adoration adoration adoration tion The Tle absolute bewilderment of St StJohn StJohn John coupled with a wild look of ter terror terror terror at the death of their master is easily apparent in the stone image while Mary Man Magdalene is the personifi personification personification personification cation of grief as she sobs Inconsolably at the foot oC ot o the Uie cross The entire piece s sixteen feet teet wide and ten feet in height hc ight All the figures are ana anh in exa t proportions The deft hand of the sculptor has hus so cleverly handled ha the background of the scene that the spires of Jerusalem ap appear appear appear pear in the far Tar distance as though miles way sway q from the main group on Calvary During the time the piece piene of sculpture was unveiled yesterday afternoon the group was viewed by a large number of passersby who were warm arm in their praises of the work The crucifixion at atthe atthe atthe the entrance e of or the cathedral is an in innovation innovation innovation novation in external church decoration and originated with Bishop Scanlan The usual plan of having decorative pillars at the entrance was abandoned and Instead he study of the divine group by Kerber adopted as something that would sharply arrest the attention of all who entered the cathedral and at atthe atthe atthe the same time picture graphically the tragic yet peaceful death of Christ |