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St. Paul Church
PARISH MISSION STATEMENT
Saint Paul Parish was founded in 1867 by Irish Immigrants. The words of Saint Paul are inscribed above our Church entrance: “stand fast in the faith, be brave and strong”. We live these words by celebrating Mass and the Sacraments, proclaiming the Gospel, and welcoming and serving one another and our neighbors in Butler County.
Brasses and Marble Work

The beautiful crucifixes, candle sticks, and sanctuary lamp, so different from the common stock were made after special designs by the St. Dunstan's Guild of the Boston Society of Arts & Crafts.  In design as well as workmanship, hark back to the distant time when the craftsman was the designer as well as the maker of all objects of Christian art.  They are of brass, the corpus on the crosses being of solid silver.

It might be stated here that no single object in the entire church has been purchased from a catalogue or from stock, that every detail had been design for the special place it was to occupy in the edifice.

The communion railings, extending across the entire width of the church is built of Alps green and Conamara marble, interspersed with spots of Numidan bresche sanguine, and Numidian Cipolin.  The pilasters contain panels of Venetian enameled mosaic in which gold predominates.  The double center grates were cast in bronze by the Winslow Brothers Company of Chicago, and are finished in verte antique.  This firm also made the bronze tabernacle doors in the main and side altars.  It may be well to mention here that only one of the side altars has a tabernacle, which is all that is required, as the Blessed Sacrament cannot be deposited in more than one place at one time in the church, it is useless therefore to have more than two tabernacles, one in the main altar and one in the side altar which is used during Holy Week.  An old European custom is to do away with the tabernacle on the main altar altogether, and have the Blessed Sacrament deposited in a separate chapel, as was done in the new Westminster Cathedral in London, an is customary in most of the churches in Rom.

 The ** baptismal font, located in the tower, is cut out of pure white Italian marble having a cover of oak picked out in gold, and suspended by means of a counter weight to facilitate it raising and lowering.  It must be stated that all the marble work was skillfully executed and accurately put together by the Duquesne Marble Company of Pittsburgh.  

** The baptismal font is no longer located in this area, it is now on the altar.

A word should be said regarding the electric light fixtures.  These were also made according to special design, of hand wrought iron by the Birmingham Guild of Arts and Crafts in England, who are represented in this county by Mr. G. P. Norton of Pittsburgh.  The ecclesiastical character of the fixtures are maintained by the introduction of emblems, suspended from a ring held in place by means of chains.  Black was used because of its unobtrusive color and because it was more serviceable for this purpose than brass.

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