Murals from St. Patrick's emerge

A series of murals salvaged from the shuttered St. Patrick's Church before its 1982 demolition have been discovered in a basement.

The life-sized murals, painted by Marco Silvestri & Son and installed in the church as late as 1953, consist of fourteen depictions of the life of St. Francis of Assisi. The discovery of the St. Patrick's remnants was first reported in Buffalo Rising and is featured today by Jay Tokasz of the Buffalo News. Check it out:

Church’s art recalls its glory days
By Jay Tokasz
NEWS STAFF REPORTER

Published:2010-08-29

St. Patrick Church, closed in 1981 and torn down a year later, has been largely forgotten in the landscape of Buffalo’s majestic old churches.

But a reminder of the church’s former glory surfaced recently in a Buffalo museum.

The Buffalo Religious Arts Center located a series of large wall murals that were taken down when the church closed. The 10-foot-tall by 12- foot-wide oil paintings, which depict the life of St. Francis of Assisi, were folded and stored in a basement for nearly 30 years. (Read the rest here.)

The murals are now located at the Buffalo Religious Arts Center, a gallery established in 2008 to house artifacts of Buffalo religious structures that no longer exist or have recently been abandoned.

Comments

[Anonymous]

Interested in saving the actual structures? Beware of charlatans that pose as preservationists.

http://www.preservationbuffaloniagara.org/page/deconstructing-and-moving-st-gerards-church/

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