Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Church St Peter and Paul origins
For the early origins of St Peter and Paul, we neeed to look at the facade and architecture.
Notably on the bells installed by Father Pierre Paris, are the lady of Lourdes and the Sacred Heart.
This traces the history back to before the 1870s at the time just before its construction.
The devotion of our Lady of Lourdes was in 1858 when St Bernadette saw apparations of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes France.
The other engraving on the historical bell is when the Sacred Heart was imprinted on it.
This shows the strong devotion to the Sacred Heart, spread by Mary Alacoques. She was a French Nun who lived from 1647 to 1690. Sacred heart devotions were spread by the Jesuits, 75 years later and arrived at Singapore shores with the evidence of strong devotion shown on the bell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Saints_Peter_and_Paul,_Singapore#History_and_architecture
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