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Show This room is to be warmed from an auxiliary heating plant, so that it can be warmed very economically. This room, which also opens into the main part of the church, will be open tJ the public tomorrow. The windows in the main body o? toe church, in the sanctuary and in the winter chapel are all of Munich stained glass. The windows in the sanctuary represent St. Peter, the apparition of Our Lord to Blessed Mary. St. Dominic receiving the rosary, and St. Benedict, the founder of the monastic orders of the church. The ten windows in the bodv of the church represent the live joyful mysteries and the five glorious mysteries of the holy rosary. All these windows with one exception are special gifts and are marked with the names of the donors or of those in whose honor or memory the windows are given. The inscriptions arc as follows: fol-lows: In memory of Father J. J. Callahan (from an unnamed donor in Butte.) In memory of Mrs. Patrick Toohey. In memory of Michael Sexton. In memory of the parents of John and Joseph Walsh. In memory of Joseph Hagen, sr. Given by Mr. " and Mrs. Joseph Kounts and family. Given by Henry Monforton. In honor of the parents of Mr. and Mrs. James Foristell. In honor of Leo Kelly and Henry Jacques, given by their parents. Given bv Mrs. Elizabeth Thompso':. In honor of Kathleen O'Donnell. Given by John and William McDonnell. McDon-nell. Given by the Children of Mary Sodality. So-dality. The St. Cecilia rose window at the back of the gallery was given by the choir. Eventually the pipe organ is to be built around this window. The altar, one of the costliest and most beautiful to be found anywhere, is finished in pure white, with genuine onyx pillars. It rises nearly thirty feet from the floor. The altar lamp and candlesticks are heavy, costly and beautiful. The altar is the gift of the Altar society of the church. The gifts for the church have been chiefly in comparatively small sums, and practically all the money was raised within Gallatin county. Among the chief donors are those named b?-Iow. b?-Iow. In these figures the cost of the specially donated windows is not included. in-cluded. These windows cost altogether alto-gether about $3,300. The other gifts are as follows: Patrick Toohey, $3,000: Henry Monforton, $2,000; John McDonell, $1,000; Mrs. Maray Hagen and family, $1,000; William and J. P. Nash, $1,000: Remi Monforton, Joseph Kountz, W. L. McDonnell, John Walsh, the Kopp company, James Foristell and J. C. McCarthy, each $500: John and Martin Gary, $500; William H. and james Arnold, jouu. The first steps toward raising the money for the purchase of a site were taken about 1902. When Father J. B. Thompson came to the church in 1905 an impetus was given to the movement, move-ment, and to him great credit is du. The site was purchased in March, 1907, for $5,000. The corner-stone for the building was laid by Bishop Carroll June 30, 1907. A month earlier the first steps were taken to raise the money for the building. The funds have been raised chiefly by Father Thompson, aided by his board of trustees, D. P. McElwee. Will McDonnell, McDon-nell, John Gary, James Foristell. Henry Monforten, Fred Leveque and J. C. McCarthy. Father Thompson es- peuiauy a.cKiiowietigeg ine am rendered ren-dered by a committee of the Gallatin Valley club, Messrs. R. D. Steele, H. L. Casey and John "Walsh. The club took the view that the church was a town enterprise, and appointed the committee commit-tee that solicited more than $1,600 artiong the non-Catholic business men for the proposed edifice. About $46,000 altogether has been raised, and there still remains a debt of about $11,000. Tomorrow the dedication is to be performed by Bishop Carroll, assisted by several, visiting priests. To .this ceremony, which begins at 10 o'clock, the laity are not admitted. They are allowed to come In at 10:30 o'clock for the mass, the benediction and the dedication ded-ication sermon, which will be preached by Father P. M. Cusbhnahan of Ogden, one of the most eloquent preachers in the west. The admission to the church, outside the membership, will necessarily be limited to those only who hold invitations. Butte Miner, Mi-ner, May 2. |
