"Roman-Byzantium" - to begin 2017?

From Douglas'




http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2014/09/a-most-telling-selection-of-style-of.html

A Most Telling Selection of Style of Architecture: Western-Eastern Roman Style Basilica at Washington, D.C.'s CUA [catholic university of america]



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The Catholic University of America, founded in 1887 by the U.S. Catholic bishops with the support of Pope Leo XIII, is the national and pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the U.S.
A decision was made for a main church structure for this Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.



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Initially it was to be Gothic- the style seen throughout western Europe.  But then a decision was made to adopt instead an architectural style blending western and eastern styles.


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One of the most influential people in the change from Gothic to Romanesque-Byzantine was John J. Cardinal Glennon (1862-1946), Archbishop of St. Louis, member of the CUA Board of Trustees and a close, personal friend of Shahan: “While the Gothic ... appears ... to lift the people to God, the Roman style or the Byzantine ... endeavors to bring God down to earth ... [God] lives with us



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