Thursday, August 22, 2013

"For it is in giving..."

"...that we receive." -St. Francis of Assisi

August 16, 2001

I'm at Graymoor Friary.  Very good dinner.  Yum!

They sat us down at a huge table in a dining hall fit for a story like Beowulf.  They put a full setting with extra forks for salads, desert, etc. and fed us a delicious meal.  This was all just to bless us.

We got a tour by the Fransiscan Friar of the center.  The first Friary and chapel was built around 1900.  Now, it's much bigger!

Hanging out with the Friars at the Friary's pavilion

The tour was excellent, and I thought much of it interesting of how the original friars lived and the marble alter from the St. Francis chapel in Italy.  Neato.

When a railroad was built along the Hudson River nearby, many men came along looking for shelter.  All the friars had to share at that point was a chicken coop which became known as St. Christopher's Inn.  I suppose the tradition continues with AT hikers!

The altar from the chapel was made in Florence, Italy and was at the St. Francis chapel there until it was given to the Graymoor Friary, arriving in 16 crates.  At the time the marble altar cost the same amount it cost to build the chapel.



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