Origin Story of the Cathedral of St Paul, Minnesota
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- Join us on a journey through the early history of the magnificent Cathedral of St Paul in Minnesota. From its humble beginnings to its completion as a masterpiece of beaux-arts architecture, this video delves into the origins, ideas, and people behind this historical church. Enjoy stunning drone shots of the cathedral's exterior, revealing its grandeur and elegance. Step inside as we showcase the artistry of the interior that adds to its captivating ambience. Immerse yourself in the rich history of St Paul's Cathedral and gain a unique experience a remarkable architectural gem of the Midwest.
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St. Paul's Cathedral is absolutely stunning
Being from St. Paul I see this building everyday and it never ceases to amaze me
Salve!So beautiful Cathedral.Greetings from Rome
hello from minnesota!
Truth • Goodness • Beauty
This place is a second home to me. A special place with the hand of God upon it.
There’s a lot of pigeon poop up in those towers as they’re pretty fond of this building too!
Not long after the bells were installed, there were some issues and they needed to be inspected. The manufacturer from Quebec came down and didn’t speak any English (Quelle surprise!), so I was called in as a translator. A memory I’ll always have of chatting with a great team of guys beside the bells on a beautiful sunny summer day and taking in the incredible view. (I don’t know how much of my “bell terminology” in English or French, I remember, but I remember it being more interesting than you might think.)
Great video, thanks for making it!
Interesting, thanks for sharing your story!
Thank you. Beautifully done. Glory to God!
Used to drive by it every day and never knew it’s rich history. Thank you for making this :)
Thanks for this post!
Bp Ireland was the first cosmopolitan Bishop in Minnesota - long before Bp Barron - who continues his legacy.
The Shrines of the Nations is, for me, the most enduring part. As you pointed out, "it honors the work that God already did in their histories."
The foundation was laid by the Lauer Bros Co headed by Henry Lauer. (my great grandfather)🙂
It was done ahead of schedule and under budget.
Lauer Bros. also made a bid for the completion, but Bp Ireland selected an Irish firm. (no comment from me here). lol
My father told me that it was just as well, because Henry was in ill health at the time.
Every time that I walk into this great building I am reminded of St. Peter's in Rome. Awesome!
Does any one else have that feeling?
Masqueray's design is magnificent.
My great great grandfather was the chief construct engineer for the cathedral. Aside from going to this place since i was a kid, i get a sense of connection to this building from that fact
Excellent video. When I was a wee lad back in the 60’s, my family would occassionally drive from Wisconsin to go to church there. I remember being awed as a kid. I need to take a tour next time I visit the area. Great memories. Thank you.
To think we have architecture right here in the states, leaves you humble. Well done.
2:02
The eyebrows tripped me out for a second there haha
Wow, beautifully done again!!!
Incredibly, they managed to build both the Cathedral of St Paul and the Basilica of St Mary at the same time, both among the most monumental churches ever built anywhere in the country.
Are they in the same town ? I’m not familiar
@@PInk77W1Cathedral is in St Paul, Basilica is in Minneapolis, which are right by each other, hence why they are called the Twin Cities
@@cosmicnomad8575 thx. I have never been
Its a great place to visit too.@@PInk77W1
This was very well done. Thank you! Gorgeous drone shots of the exterior of this wonderful church. The Cathedral offers one hour in-person guided tours most Tuesday-Fridays that are very much worth it. Just one correction to this video - there are only 11 apostles (not 12) carved in the tympanum on the facade with the Christ figure giving the great commission. Matthew 28:16-19. Judas was otherwise engaged.
Good catch! Thank you for the comment.
Amazing videography. Thank you for this wonderful tribute!
This was great-haven't been in it since high school.
Lived by the Cathedral years ago and never grew tired of seeing it. The James J. Hill house across the street is amazing as well (a slight 36,000 sq. ft in size). And would recommend walk down Summit Ave to see all the old mansions. It’s a cool area overall, might be worth a future video.
The aerial pictures are fantastic. But when you drive around the city what is really striking is the hill the Cathedral sits on. You can see the city from the Cathedral and the Cathedral from the city.
Just a reminder for people, if you want beautiful architecture like this to stick around, you have to go to mass from time to time.
Indeed. I watched a documentary recently and it angered me when it was shown that an older church was transformed into a hotel somewhere in France.
If your interested it's called "Mass of the Ages" on TH-cam. The segment I'm referencing is the opening scene of part three called "Guardians of Tradition".
Not necessarily true.The church's first cathedrals weren't purpose-built, they were converted from former Roman basilicas (public government buildings). Similarly, in this day and age, I've visited former churches from Portland to Prague that were converted to breweries, hotels, and concert venues.
The architecture is not explicitly or inherently tied with any ideology; that part can change
@@anthony1776diaz so you're saying that visitors to that hotel can enjoy the beautiful architecture without attending mass
@@onesob13
If it was purposefully built as a church, the architecture is inherently tied to the religion.
Those first Basilica were made into churches because that is what was available in the sense that those were the most beautiful buildings that could be obtained, but things like St. Paul’s, Cathedral, or Notre Dame Cathedral, Christianity is literally carved into every stone and buttress of the building.
The whole focus of the architecture is upon orienting us towards God and heaven, to remove that then in favor of something worldly is literally the definition of sacrilege.
@@allthenewsordeath5772 Notre Dame is a good example of the slow and subtle change that I'm talking about. Visitors to Notre Dame these days are predominantly non-Catholic (if not predominantly non-Christian), and even secular folks go to be astonished by its architecture. Mass is still held there, but as an aside, a vestige of its past. That church is these days, for most people, a Parisian tourist attraction first and foremost, not a Catholic place of service. It invokes in people's minds the idea of Parisian culture, French history, even of stories about heroic hunchbacks, before most people think about its associations with Catholicism. When it burned, the world mourned the loss to French identity and global architectural canon, not the loss to the Catholic Church.
People and ideologies change over time, but Notre Dame remains awe-inspiring whether it's viewed through a Catholic lens or any other lens that someone might have.
My cousin got married here. It was fricken amazing.
it is impressive visited it once
My mother hailed from St. Paul, & I often visited this city during my childhood. I may not have even known what a cathedral was at that age, but this building's outer appearance probably colored my impression of what the word meant. Five or six decades later I still haven't been inside, though I have toured the James J. Hill house across the street from its front facade.
Tours are held 4 days every week!
You should do a video on “Grotto of the Redemption” in West Bend, Iowa & also “Little Brown Church in the Vale” in Nashua, Iowa.
I spent a wonderful hour there with a friend. It is beautiful, grand yet peaceful, a glorious space for God and his people.
Did you mean to show the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis at 2:18? Of course, it was also designed by Masqueray and one of the two large churches Ireland wanted to build for the archdiocese.
Yep it was intensional because it was part of Masqueray’s repertoire for the area. Really I was looking for any excuse to show it, as it’s also just such a magnificent building!
I go here as often as I can. It's my favorite view in St. Paul, especially on gloomier days.
Downtown st paul is another gem by this architect St Louis King of France church
Across the river is the first Basilica built west of the Mississippi.
It is quite similar to St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest.
Amen! Come & celebrate our Lord at Mass!❤️✝️✡️
Can't fathom how a settling town can have enough money to build a monster size building like that. Some mysteries unknown
Well I think the Catholic Church definitely had the money to get it made if they wanted...
Being that there were uber rich people in the area like James J. Hill, I don't think it's very unexpected.
When this church was built we attended Mass regularly we worked for the glory of God. Today's world is all about self...
The church was built with donations from the parishioners. All helped rich and poor great and small.
This is the church behind 😌
The sad thing is it’s surrounded by roads and concrete. It spoils part of the glory.
Would love to learn more, but the music is too distracting for me. Can you just cut it out?!
OK one small correction, it's a basilica not a cathedral. think Templar cross vs a crucifix. Also I really enjoyed this vid I live in MN & have been multiple times -- for musical events - go if you can
Thanks for the comment! I’m pretty sure it is a Cathedral (seat of the bishop), and not a basilica - maybe you’re thinking of the Basilica of St Mary’s in Minneapolis. But I’m happy to be corrected.
@@placesofthepast yes the official website calls it a cathedral but it is a basilica when MPR broadcasts they call it a basilica so we might both be right it is an as RC cathedral by name but a basilica by architecture
@@placesofthepast one more thing they share the bishopric with minnapolis kinda cool
@@johnmiller8975 calling something a cathedral or a basilica has nothing to do with architecture
@@LeviSmail please explain
Let see a DEI focused company build this today.
Whenever a new church building is being considered, TELL YOUR PRIEST AND BISHOP THAT YOU WANT TO BUILD MORE GLORIOUS STRUCTURES LIKE THIS, which inspire us toward heaven. Make sure it has a magnificent pipe organ, as well. Let's bring back sacred beauty in the Catholic Church and stop just imitating the modern non Catholic churches, in what they build.
At the rate things are going this will make a really nice mosque
Exactly what I was thinking as I watched this. I am not RC but I am still dismayed at what is happening to the RC throughout the Midwest. Many of Chicago’s churches are already on the chopping block.
Not built for the Novus Ordo.
For real
The streets and concrete pavements surround it robbed this structure a grassy frame. Remove all the pavements around it..and just built an underground parking covered with grass.
All the Byzantine Catholics in the comments ready to throw shade on John Ireland.
Born and raised not far from this beauty. The copper dome was oxidized and green for half my life. It was cleaned in the early 2000s for an estimated 35 million dollars.
It looks amazing. The whole exterior still seems brand new!
Not cleaned but rebuilt.
@@randyschreiner7807 You're correct, my mistake.
I know it needed to be replaced (though I also thought it was cleaned...guess that means it really needed repair!), but I still miss the verdigris rooftops. I worked in the MNDot building for a summer and would spend my lunches eating on the steps of the cathedral, the memorials, or the capitol buildings. It's so lovely there.
Tartaria building
You get me
Amazing how anti-Catholic Minnesota is culturally, and with such a progressive political climate int he Twin Cities, it's sad so much Catholic Christian jewels and resources are wasted on the MSP metro area.
You're confusing Minneapolis with Minnesota. Not all of Minnesota is progressive.
The building itself is an absolute divine palace. Probably thousands of years old, as there is NO possible way it was built by humans.
Agree! Probably not built by ordinary men! YT channel My Lunch Break explores this phenomenon that is all over the world. I think these may be from the millennial reign of Christ. Now we are living Rev 20: 7!
What are you smoking?
Ethnic diversity... do they acknowledge that this is all Jewish architecture? I wonder.. You probably havent heard of it..... Despite the fact that it is the origin of what you see (Roman and "Moorish")..
Jewish? You’re confused
@@Michael01093 Am I ? Maybe... Do you know what are the names of the pillars at the heart of every entrance and shrine? Do you know why its built like that ? and where the instructions come from? Start with the Bible - Kings - First temple.
@@Michael01093 Does the names Boaz and Yachin mean anything to you?
זֶה הַשַּׁעַר לַיהוָה צַדִּיקִים יָבֹאוּ בוֹ
וְעָשׂוּ לִי מִקְדָּשׁ וְשָׁכַנְתִּי בְּתוֹכָם
@@12TribesUnite the old covenant is not the same as the new one.
@@Michael01093 The instructions are in the old one.. They killed everyone and stole everything and re written history to cover their crimes. But the pope sits on a mountain of Gold that they stole... History has been censured by the Church who wasn't so keen on keeping traces of their competitors around. Dont you find its strange that there is no such architecture style ? Its a part of the grand conspiracies against the Jews. Yes against. Dont be a part of it
Cathedral will return to its grandeur when this protestant table is removed from the Sanctuary.
It’s so sad what St. Paul / Minneapolis has turned into since 2020. Just a run down hood. Imagine back to those who built these buildings.
It's the exact same as 2019, y'all just decided to stop coming
@@onesob13 not when I was there last summer. It was an absolute shit hole.
Not so. I live near the cathedral in St. Paul. Best bike-riding city in the US. Take a bike trip down Summit around the cathedral and state capitol then to the Mississippi. Farmers Market in Lowertown. Amazing. Same with Minneapolis. Yes - there was a bit of a slug.
@@MNUrkuri last summer I was in Minneapolis is a was a dystopia. I’m heading back in a month I’ll see if they’ve cleaned it up yet.
Moved back to MN in January, and yes there are some areas which are still scarred and troubled. The east side of Uptown is pretty rough compared to what it once was for example.
That said it’s still a beautiful place, and has been gradually making a recovery. Plenty of good areas and opportunity. With all the rainfall this spring/summer it’s incredibly green and lush.
I’d say the biggest inconveniences I’ve experienced, are road construction and traffic in select areas, but that’s to be expected in any large metro area.
How much more edifying than suburban strip-mall architecture of the Vatican II Boomer Church of the New Pentecost
The part you left out was how in the hell they were able to make such perfect, consistent, accurate, seamless cuts in granite. Mere chisels could not achieve this feat in 4 years, i'm sorry. It's impossible. What tools were used aside from chisels? How were horses able to pull these granite stones that weight 10's of thousands of tons pounds? Much more to be explained here.
I didn't research the building methods, just the history. Can you explain what you believe, then, so I can see it is more plausible than my source material?
@@placesofthepast I think you'll have to first accept that our history is largely a fabrication... even the picture of the St. Louis fair that you showed is further proof that we're in the dark. I challenge you to approach Paric construction in St. Louis and ask them what it would take to reconstruct the "temporary" (cough, pre-exiting, cough) world's fair buildings that were indiscriminately torn down. Also notice that every major city in the US and across the world share much of the same architectural themes in their city buildings - court houses, post offices, breweries, "assylums," etc. The problem here is that there is a vast amount of missing or misleading historical data describing the world prior to 1914. WWI, the sinking of the Titanic and the creation of the federal reserve represent the true beginning of tribulation and "The Big Lie" purported as history. A.I. has done a fabulous job of creating these narratives - that you've regurgitated - en masse. Orwell wrote about this in 1984. History will be perpetually rewritten and falsified. TLDR: The building in this video was part of Atlantis, the globally cooperative, genius ancestry of the human race that existed much more recently than we're led to believe. But of course I'm just a lowly Master Mason, not a 33rd degree, so what do I know?
Lol you guys went from questioning how the Pyramids could have ever been built, to how the Colosseum was built, to how Renaissance buildings were built, and now you're saying the same line for a structure which began construction in 1906. I ask you to watch any videos on masonry and you'll see how easy it is for even a journeyman mason to chisel precise carvings and move massive stones with simple tools and mechanical principles.
Jesus exhorted us to care for the poor and one another. He did not ask us to spend unmeasured sums of money on temples to his "glory".
For sure caring for people is primary, as Archbishop Ireland’s career demonstrated. Christians were doing a ton of charity work at that time! But beauty is a good thing - a transcendental which points us to God - and our sense for it could use refinement... I don’t see a problem with people sacrificially using some of their wealth toward public examples of beauty through architecture.
The cathedral is an edifice. It is a spiritual center for everyone...poor and prosperous. The soul needs nourishment as well as the body.
Palace of the poor, these ‘temples.’
As others have stated, beauty and art is another form of charity, it points us towards the transcendental and the beautiful, towards God.
Now remind me again what it was that Jesus said to the widow at the well?
This idea that our places of worship shouldn’t be beautiful is almost always a red herring by secularists, or a misunderstanding by protestants, as if feeding the body in the soul are mutually exclusive, and the glory of God on earth should be contained to gray boxes.
Sorry guys, I’m not buying it, probably a magnificent structure left over from the millennial reign of Christ and the Saints Humans are not capable of that.
You’ve got to be joking.