[Magdalen] Unexpected Pleasure.

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 14:20:51 UTC 2015


Helen Keller, one of my childhood heroes, was a Swedenborgian.

> On Mar 4, 2015, at 3:35 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Re: Swedenborgians in Philadelphia:
> 
> I photographed the Bryn Athryn Cathedral some years ago.
> I got a sort of creepy feeling doing so.  I checked first with  the
> church office, and they wanted to know who I was and what  my
> purpose was, and then someone followed me about the entire  time
> I was inside.
> 
> The story of the building of this church is quite interesting.   They
> originally hired the premier collegiate gothic architect in the  USA,
> Ralph Adams Cram, but the wealthy Scot who was bankrolling  the
> church (Pitcairn) disagreed with Cram at every step until  Cram
> finally simply bowed out and they finished the building on their  own.
> 
> 
> David Strang.
> 


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