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FAITH AND CULTURE

interior of the church.
St Peter’s is large both in concept and scale and reflects more
the size of a Cathedral rather than a parish church. Despite
this, however, it is remarkably sympathetic to its place and
sits quite in scale with both itself and the town at its feet. It is
well, though simply done, bold and strong with no apology. It
is without question the most imposing ecclesiastical building
in Buckie.

Lanterns of the North

If you've beeen enjoying this series of articles you won't
want to miss a new book, Lanterns of the North, published
by Palladio Press/Amazon (188 pages). It's an architect’s
The pulpit view of eleven churches throughout the Catholic Diocese of
particularly, but not exclusively, during the incumbency of Aberdeen, plus the ‘Secret Seminary’ at Scalan. It includes
Father McIntosh. It was he who instigated the extension to the many full colour photographs as well as Oliver Humphries’
Sanctuary, improving immensely the proportion of the church architectural drawings of the buildings, exterior and interior.
There is also an appendix containing the beautiful line
both internally and externally. The marble communion rail, drawings of all our churches, done by John R. Hume.
the marble floor to the Sanctuary, the altar and reredos and the Copies of the book may be obtained from Amazon, price
marble ornamentation to the columns within the Sanctuary £8.96, from St Mary's Cathedral bookshop or direct from
area, these were also inspired by him. However, work of the publisher, Deacon Tony Schmitz. Email:
embellishment continued with the installation of the splendid tony.schmitz@gmail.com
pulpit, located within the nave and the final addition of the There's also another opportunity for this issue's crossword
marble dado wall facings around, which finish so elegantly the competition winner to receive a copy of Lanterns of the North.

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Jesus, Carmelite Nun and Doctor of the Church. Through prayers and donations, friends of
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the world and in their education of young Carmelites.

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