[Magdalen] Education/Candles.

[Judy Fleener]

The droppings we find in our church are bat guano.


On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> > Curious whether there is a noticeable deposit of burnt candle wax
> > in Ascension.  The downtown Wilkes-Barre RC parish discontinued
> > votive candles some years ago because of the damage they were
> > alleged to have done to the elaborate frescos in the church.
>
> Some years ago we started having chunks of who-knows-what dropping
> from a ventilation grate at the peak of the ceiling high above the
> sanctuary, so the freestanding altar would often have gunk on its dust
> cover in the morning. Chunks of something were also known to drop
> during Mass. The grate and what's above it were cleaned up, and no
> problem with that since then. We haven't got frescoes, and the big
> stations of the cross were masterfully repainted maybe 10 years ago
> and still look good.
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan