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St. Patrick's Cathedral Tour

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View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  1) St. Patrick's Cathedral Map [29]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  2) Exterior - Archbishop John Hughes [199]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  3) Chapel of Our Lady Madison Ave. Side [36]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  4) Copper Virgin [39]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  5) Exterior - America's Cathedral [19]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  6) Rose Window Exterior [36]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  7) Archbishop John Hughes Shield [2217]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  8) Doors designed by Charles D. Maginnis - Venerable Kateri Tekakwitha & St. Elizabeth Ann Seton [379]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  9) Nave [43]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  10) Transepts [65]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  11) The Altar Area [26]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  12) Archbishop's Hats - Galeros [35]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  13) St. Patrick Statue carved by Joseph Sibbel [69]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  14) Baldachin & High Altar - Statues designed by John Angel [138]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  15) Pulpit - Draddy Brothers [120]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  16) Crypt - Archbishop John Hughes - Pierre Toussaint [82]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  17) Saint Patrick Statue [39]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  18) Altar of St. Michael and St. Louis built by Tiffany & Company [121]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  19) Altar of St. Michael - 'St. Louis' Left Window [128]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  20) Altar of St. Michael - St. Louis Center Window by Paul Woodroffe [44]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  21) Altar of St. Michael and St. Louis Right Window [43]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  22) Chapel of Our Lady designed by Charles T. Matthews [92]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  23) Chapel of Our Lady – Pope Leo XIII [46]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  24) Chapel of Our Lady - 'Presentation of Christ in the Temple.' Window [121]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  25) Chapel of Our Lady - 'Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple' [79]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  26) Chapel of Our Lady – Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary [61]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  27) Chapel of Our Lady – 'Ascension of Jesus' [62]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  28) Chapel of Our Lady – Crowning of Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth [63]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  29) Chapel of Our Lady - 'The Annunciation Mosaic' [43]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  30) Chapel of Our Lady – 'Descent of the Holy Spirit' [36]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  31) Chapel of Our Lady – Descent of the Holy Spirit' [7]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  32) Chapel of Our Lady – Agony in Gethsemane [37]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  33) Chapel of Our Lady – Scourging of Jesus - Bolshevik carries red flag and sledgehammer [81]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  34) Chapel & Altar of St. Elizabeth [21]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  35) Chapel & Altar of St. Elizabeth – Crowning with Thorns [35]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  36) Chapel & Altar of St. Elizabeth – Carrying of the Cross [8]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  37) Chapel & Altar of St. Elizabeth – Crucifixion [32]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  38) William Ordway Partiridge 'Pieta' Sculpture [38]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  39) 'Death of Joseph' Stained Glass Window [41]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  40) Altar & Chapel of St. Theresa the Little Flower & St Alphonsus Ligouri Wind [35]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  41) Altar of St. Theresa the Little Flower [99]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  42) St. Alphonsus Liguori Stained Glass Window by Henry Ely [172]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  43) Chapel and Altar of St. Andrew & St. Agnes Window [22]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  44) 'St. Agnes' Stained Glass Window a gift of Agnes Maitland [99]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  45) Chapel and Altar of St. Andrew [32]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  46) St. John Window - gift of William Joyce [73]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  47) St. John Window [21]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  48) Altar of the Blessed Sacrament & Stations of the Cross XIV, XII & XII [167]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  49) 'Virgin of Guadalupe' Painting [47]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  50) South Transept [54]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  51) St. Patrick Window - a gift of the Old St. Patrick's Cathedral [272]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  52) South Transept East Statues [54]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  53) South Transept West Statues [63]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  54) Stations of the Cross XI, X & IX by Cuypers & Stolzenberg Co. of Roermond Holland. [84]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  55) St. Luke's Window - gift of Dennis J. Dwyer [92]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  56) Seventh Station of the Cross [57]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  57) St. Patrick's Window - Founders Window - Nicholas Lorin - Reverend John M. Farley - Archbishop John Hughes [206]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  58) Altar & Chapel of St. Rose of Lima & Pope Pius IX Window [20]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  59) 'Immaculate Conception' Stained Glass Window by Nicholas Lorin in Chartres, France [105]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  60) Rose of Lima Chapel [35]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  61) Rose of Lima Chapel [57]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  62) 'St. Henry' Stained Glass Window a gift of Henry J. Anderson [88]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  63) Annunciation Window & Chapel of St. John the Baptist [12]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  64) Chapel of St. John the Baptist desgned by by James Renwick Jr [93]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  65) 'The Annunciation Window' by Nicholas Lorin [85]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  66) Window of St Elizabeth, Andrew & Catherine of Alexandria both by Nicholas Lorin [173]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  67) Chapel & Altar of St. Anthony of Padua [65]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  68) Chapel & Altar of St. Anthony of Padua – Limoges [73]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  69) Interior Facade [21]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  70) Organ by George Jardine & Son - Rose Window by Charles Connick of Boston [138]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  71) Organ by Geo. KIlgen & Son 1930 [70]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  72) 'Three Baptisms' Window signed by Henry Ely [128]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  73) North Nave Wall [13]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  74) St. Columbanus Window in memory of Daniel Devlin [153]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  75) Chapel of St. Brigid and St. Bernard [96]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  76) Window of the Brothers of Christian Schools & Jean Baptiste de la Salle Cha [19]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  77) Window of the Brothers of Christian Schools [96]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  78) Jean Baptiste de la Salle Chapel designed by the Brothers of Christian Schools [52]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  79) Jean Baptiste de la Salle Chapel – St. Benild Sculpture by D. Borgia [31]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  80) Jean Baptiste de la Salle Chapel - Jean Baptiste de la Salle teaching [24]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  81) Jean Baptiste de la Salle Chapel – The Corporal Works of Mercy [45]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  82) Jean Baptiste de la Salle Chapel – Saint Miguel Febres Cordero [18]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  83) 'Martyrdom of St. Lawrence' Window made in Chartres, France by M. Lorin [96]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  84) Our Lady of Czestochowa Altar & Chapel [459]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  85) Window of St. Bernard and Chapel of the Holy Relics [21]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  86) St. Bernard Window -gift of the Diocese of Rochester NY - signed by Nicholas Lorin [111]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  87) Chapel of the Holy Relics [81]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  88) Chapel of the Holy Relics [46]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  89) St. Charles Borromeo Window & Station of the Cross VII [55]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  90) St. Charles Borromeo Window - gift of Lorenzo Delmonico [61]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  91) St. Mark Window & Stations of the Cross [17]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  92) 'St. Mark' Stained Glass Window - gift of Bernard Maguire [103]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  93) Stations of the Cross VI, V & IV [27]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  94) North Transept [47]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  95) Window of the Blessed Virgin Mary [270]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  96) North Transept Wall - doors designed by James Renwick Jr. [44]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  97) North Transept West Sculptures - John Massey Rhind [59]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  98) North Transept East Sculptures [47]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  99) Altar of the Holy Family & Stations of the Cross [75]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  100) Stations of the Cross III, II & I [92]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  101) St. Matthew Window - gift of Andrew Clarke. [115]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  102) 'Holy Family' Altar by James Renwick Jr. - donor Joseph A. Donohoe [168]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  103) Altar of St. Joseph gift of Agnes Maitland [26]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  104) 'Adoration of the Christ Child' Window - gift of Thomas H. O'Connor and Mrs. Julia Coleman [65]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  105) 'Nativity' Window [33]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  106) Choir Loft View [56]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  107) Villard House [52]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  108) Saks Fifth Avenue Department Store [217]

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Saks Fifth Avenue Department Store -- St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, New York
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St. Patrick's Cathedral - New York City, New York
Saks Fifth Avenue Department Store



The famous Saks Fifth Avenue sits just south of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue. It is one of the few remaining grand New York City department stores. Its Christmas windows are an enduring and entertaining tradition for children of all ages.

Saks Fifth Avenue was created by Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel, who operated independent retail stores in Herald Square. Their combined wealth enabled them to purchase a site between 49th and 50th streets on upper Fifth Avenue, then owned by the Democratic Club and the Buckingham Hotel. In 1924 when it opened, it was one of the first department stores to open in a residential district. Saks became known for it quality men's and women's fashions and its customer services. Street windows displayed luxury items including raccoon coats and foot muffs for automobile travel. An electric-lighting system signaled chauffeurs when to pick up patrons.

Adam Gimbel (Bernard's cousin) became Horace Saks' assistant. When Horace Saks died in 1926, Adam Gimbel became President of Saks Fifth Avenue. He redecorated the entire flagship store in the Art Moderne style from the 1925 Paris Exposition. A series of specialty shops was opened within the store. In 1926, it opened its first branch in Palm Beach, Florida. Saks became — and still is — one of the world's best department stores.





St. Patrick
(b. England 390 – d. Ireland 461)
was a bishop, and is the patron saint of Ireland. As a youth, he was kidnapped by Irish pirates. It is not known where he studied for the priesthood, although he knew and wrote Latin. He organized the Irish Church in Armagh and encouraged the Irish to become nuns and monks. He expelled the snakes from Ireland (there are no Irish snakes). Patrick explained the Trinity (God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost) by using the Irish shamrock. His feast day is March 17th.






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