Our Lady of Mercy Church, Port au Port, Newfoundland
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At 115 feet in height, Our Lady of Mercy Church of Port au Port West, Newfoundland & Labrador stands tall between the landmasses of Bay St. George and Port au Port Bay.
With a church so large in size and with the beautiful mastery of local craftsmanship and having a seating capacity of 1,000, many question why a church so large would be built for a population so small.
Soon after in 1910 a limestone quarry had opened in Jack of Club’s Cove, where the name had soon changed to Aguathuna, a Beothuk name meaning ‘White Rock.’ The change came so business and trade from others afar would be taken more seriously. With increasing employment in the area came 500 men for the job, and with those men came 500 women, which would adorn the hopes of an increasing population. In the early days of Aguathuna, it was believed that due to the expansion of families and promising employment that the area would develop into what would become Newfoundland’s second city outside of the island’s capital of St. John’s. Sadly, the population boom did not occur in later years due to a sudden closure of the quarry operation where the cost of shipping exceeded the means.
With a large religious population, there would be a great requirement for a church to house the population, thus Our Lady of Mercy Church had been developed. It was a dream of Father Joy, the first parish priest in the area. Father Joy had the church designed, and a plan drawn up for a build that would start in 1914 and would take 11 years to complete. The church was consecrated in 1925. In the early years, Father Joy trained in Italy and chose the architecture and structure to reflect churches he had seen while there.
For such a mighty structure to be built there would be a great deal of capital involved, though Father Joy wanted the structure to be built debt free. In order to do so, he had it built with mainly volunteer labor. Most of the construction was contributed by able bodied fisherman, farmers, miners and adolescents of the parish who each donated at least one week of work per year to the build. There were donations of wood from Nova Scotia and Quebec, and the local communities of Point au Mal, West Bay and Piccadilly.
The beautifully hand carved 14 stations of the cross were brought in by Joy from Italy and are made of Carrera marble, surrounded by travertine marble. Carrera marble was mined under water not far from the town of Carrera where Michelangelo did most of his work. In present day the marble is no longer mined, which makes the stations particularly irreplaceable. As for most of the statues individual families donated them along with the and stained glass structures in memory of their loved ones.
During the build, Mr. Emile Felix, an elderly fisherman from the community who had been too old to climb on the scaffolding of the 35-meter high structure, wished to be of some assistance to the build. With that in mind, Mr. Felix, who could not read, or write took it upon himself to construct the altar rail by hand carving it using only a pocketknife, a homemade plain, an axe and a saw. Today it stands as a testament for what the skilled Newfoundlanders could do at the time with little or no tools.
The design of the church, looking from the sanctuary down, is in the form of a cross. The local craftsmen had built the ceiling of the church in the same way they would have built the hull of a schooner. In essence, the ceiling of the church is built as a boat, but bottom up!
The structure stands as one of Newfoundland and Labrador’s best venues for acoustics. With that being said, the church is no stranger to concerts and plays such as Murder in the Cathedral and big brass bands.
In later years in 1997, the church was named a Registered Heritage Structure by the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Today the doors are open for tours and public services during the summer months. If you would like to visit Our Lady of Mercy Church, feel free to stop by the grounds for a tour and an afternoon you won’t soon forget, nor regret. Visit ourladyofmercynl.com today!
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Our Lady of Mercy Complex Committee Inc. was formed in January 2017 for the purpose of preserving, maintaining and restoring the Our Lady of Mercy Church Complex in Port au Port West, NL.
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Our Lady of Mercy Complex Committee Inc. was formed in January 2017 for the purpose of preserving, maintaining and restoring the Our Lady of Mercy Church Complex in Port au Port West, NL.
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In this video, I am gonna show you my search for the grave of the Indian King Raja Raja. I was told that his tombstone lies in the small village of Udayalur. This is where he is rumored to have been buried or cremated.
When I visited this place, I was surprised to see a lingam which is about 2 feet tall and this elderly gentleman told me that the rest of the structure is buried underneath about 14 feet deep. It is a rather simple lingam with a diameter of only one and a half feet. He says this Lingam is the tombstone of Raja Raja. I asked him if he knew how Raja Raja died, and he told me he died naturally of old age and was cremated right here. Why would a great king have such a small, anonymous grave? You can see there are no inscriptions, no other carvings on this lingam or anywhere in this site. Remember, Raja Raja built the greatest temple in India which is now declared a world heritage site and his accomplishments and other information are inscribed all over the walls in many temples. So, I asked this gentleman, if there is any evidence to prove that this is in fact Raja Raja's grave.
He told me there used to be a pillar here and it was donated to a temple called Paalkulathu amman temple, a few miles away. He said that this pillar has inscriptions which proves that Raja Raja died here.
So, I decided to travel to this temple and take a look at this pillar myself. As soon as I reached the temple, I immediately spotted the pillar. The pillar does contain the word RajaRaja so it is obviously related to the King, but I was not able to completely understand what the inscription said. So, I took a lot of pictures and copied the entire writings on a scratchpad.
I contacted an epigraphist, who was able to tell me exactly what was written in this pillar. I've posted the entire inscription and it's translation on my website phenomenalplace.com and you can take a look at it if you are interested. I double checked this information with another expert as well.
What the inscription says is that the Royal Palace of Raja Raja Chola was renovated by 4 people. The inscription includes those 4 names and that is all the information we see on this pillar. The inscription has no reference to the death or grave of the King at all. This shows that the site of this lingam is probably not Raja Raja's grave and there is no actual evidence to claim so.
This raises the question of what happened to Raja Raja, how did he die? Where did his funeral take place? Think a moment, there are hundreds of inscriptions about Raja Raja's accomplishments, how he conquered various territories, how he built the great temple and even when he was born. But there is no information whatsoever about when or how he died and where he was buried or cremated.
So I decided to go back to Thanjavur to find out more about his death. I contacted several archeologists and they told me that the only reason why a King's death would not recorded is if the King died an unnatural death. So, if a King committed suicide or was murdered, then the ancient Tamils would not record that.
I spoke to a lot of locals in Thanjavur to see if anyone knew how he died. The locals tell a very different, but consistent story. It turns out that Raja Raja was actually murdered by a woman from Sri Lanka. Let's hear what this gentleman says. In 993 A.D, Raja Raja conquered half of Sri Lanka and the defeated King Mahinda V fled to the south, to avoid being captured. Unable to defeat Raja Raja in the battlefield, King Mahinda sent a Buddhist woman from Sri Lanka who slowly got into the inner circle of Raja Raja. When Raja Raja was standing on the 8th floor inspecting the progress of the Big Temple, she simply pushed him down. This fall killed him instantly.
People claim this is why the temple was not properly finished and his son created a whole new capital in a different city because he thought that this was a cursed place. This story also explains why his son Rajendra Chola went after Sri Lanka with a vengeance, conquering the entire island. He then found King Mahinda who was hiding, brought him back and kept him as a lifelong prisoner. Mahinda V died in prison around 1029 A.D. Although this story explains why there is no record of Raja Raja's death or his tomb, again, I have to point out that I don't have any actual evidence to prove this. So, my quest for Raja Raja's grave and the nature of his death remains incomplete but I'm gonna keep searching. I hope you liked this video, I am Praveen Mohan. Thank you for watching and talk to you soon.
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À Londres, le Canadien Richard Hannay rencontre, au terme d'un spectacle musical interrompu bien singulièrement, une demoiselle qui se prétend poursuivie. Il accepte de la cacher chez lui, où l'on assassine cette dernière. Craignant d'être accusé, il comprend qu'il ne pourra prouver son innocence de ce meurtre que s'il s'implique dans une intrigue d'espionnage. Il n'a que deux indices, une phrase qu'elle lui a dite, « les 39 marches », et le nom d'un lieu en Écosse…
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Studios : Lime Grove
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Musique : Louis Levy4
Musique originale : Hubert Bath3, Jack Beaver3 et Charles Williams3
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Décors : Otto Werndorff et Albert Jullion
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Pays d'origine : Royaume-Uni
Langue : anglais
Format : Noir et blanc - 35 mm
Ratio : 1.37 : 1
Son : Mono
Genre : Espionnage, Policier, Thriller
Durée : 81 minutes
Dates de sortie : Royaume-Uni 6 juin 1935, États-Unis 1er août 1935, France 30 octobre 1935
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