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St. Vincent Ferrer Church Tour

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View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  1) Map of St. Vincent Ferrer Church [38]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  2) Exterior - Dominican Friars of the American Province of St. Joseph - Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue Jr. Architect [578]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  3) North Turret North Side - Sculptures of Blessed Henry Suso & Fra Ristoro de' Campi [179]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  4) North Turret North Side - Savonarola Sculpture by Lee Lawrie [62]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  5) South Turret - Hugh of St. Cher Sculpture [65]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  6) South Turret - Diego de Deza Sculpture by Lee Lawrie [55]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  7) Unfinished [41]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  8) Great Gallery - St. Hyacinth - St. Catherine de Ricci [264]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  9) Symbols of the Apostles [65]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  10) Symbols of the Apostles [35]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  11) Life of Christ Emblems [63]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  12) West Façade [96]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  13) Pope Honorious III Sculpture [15]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  14) Pope Benedict XV Sculpture [17]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  15) Archbishop John Cardinal Farley Sculpture [15]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  16) Blessed Innocent V [14]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  17) Veronica's Veil New Testament symbol [28]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  18) Ten Commandments symbol of The Old Testament [23]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  19) Crucifixion Group [30]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  20) Three Door Statues. [21]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  21) Archway - St. Francis feeds three bandits [98]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  22) Archway - Bell and Winged Bat: symbol of joy [61]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  23) Archway - Snake and Apple: symbol of fall of man [52]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  24) Archway - Scorpion: symbol of sin [58]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  25) Archway - Anchor: symbol of hope [54]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  26) Interior [81]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  27) Main Altar & Transepts [29]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  28) Altar of the Rosary - Rosary Confraternity [107]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  29) Altar of the Rosary - 5th Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary [43]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  30) Altar of the Rosary - Blessed Joan of Aza [269]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  31) Altar of the Rosary - St. Pius V [43]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  32) Altar of the Rosary - The Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary [322]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  33) Altar of the Rosary – Central Panel - Dominic de Guzmán [73]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  34) Altar of the Rosary – Alabaster Panel depicts Battle of Lepanto 1571 [109]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  35) Easter Sepulcher - Queen of the Most Holy Rosary [118]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  36) Pulpit [62]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  37) Pulpit Canopy North Face - St. Raymond of Pennafort [184]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  38) Pulpit Canopy West Face - St. Hyacinth [184]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  39) Pulpit Canopy South Face [177]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  40) Pews [17]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  41) Sister's Tribune & High Altar [49]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  42) High Altar constructed by Joseph Van Uytvanck [140]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  43) High Altar Top - Shield of the Dominican Order [208]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  44) 'Preacher of the Judgment' Stained Glass Window [236]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  45) High Altar Triptych & Canopy - Cross and Spear - St. Philip [115]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  46) High Altar Tryptich by Alfredo Mira - St. Antoninus, O.P [202]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  47) Altar Frontal - 'Laudare, benedicere, praedicare' [115]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  48) North Side Altar Statues & Candlesticks [71]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  49) Tabernacle [82]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  50) Tabernacle [90]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  51) Tabernacle [69]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  52) South Side Altar Statues & Candlesticks [90]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  53) Nave & Sanctuary [38]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  54) Friar's Chapel - Brannin Sherley [81]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  55) Polychrome Angles [27]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  56) Friar's Chapel - Our Lady gives the Rosary to St. Dominic [47]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  57) Friar's Chapel Window by Henry Wyand Young - St. Agnes of Montepulciano, O.P [233]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  58) Friar's Chapel – St. Dominic & St. Thomas Aquinas Windows [183]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  59) Friar's Chapel – St. Pius V & St. Catherine of Siena Widow. [232]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  60) Friar's Chapel [7]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  61) Friar's Chapel [10]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  62) South Transept Wall [25]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  63) Statue of Our Lady 'Porta Coeli' by Ethel Parson Paullin [113]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  64) Statue of Mary [14]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  65) St. Vincent Ferrer Shrine - 873 Miracles [133]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  66) St. Vincent Ferrer Shrine - 'Timete Deum et date illi honorem' [67]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  67) Holy Name Chapel [40]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  68) Holy Name Chapel – Crucifix [105]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  69) Holy Name Chapel – Altar & Triptych [190]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  70) Holy Name Chapel – Statues [33]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  71) Baptistery - angels carved by Thomas McGlynn O.P. [180]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  72) Baptistery Window [142]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  73) Baptistery Painting [104]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  74) Baptistery Angels [58]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  75) North Nave Wall [31]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  76) North Aisle Chapel - St. Patrick's Stained Glass Window – King Leoghaire [221]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  77) St. Patrick's Altar - St. Brigid, the Mary of Ireland [192]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  78) Pieta [30]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  79) Stained Glass Window of St. Joseph - 'In memory of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mahoney' [131]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  80) St. Joseph's Altar [49]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  81) St. Joseph's Altar [101]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  82) Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima [85]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  83) Sanctuary/Western Window [31]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  84) Great Western Window by Charles Connick directed by Bertram Goodhue - St. Thomas Aquinas [639]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  85) North Nave Upper Stained Glass [28]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  86) St. Raymond of Pennafort Stained Glass Window - St. Peter Nolasco [546]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  87) St. Catherine of Sienna Stained Glass Window [905]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  88) St. Peter the Martyr Stained Glass Window - St. Geralda [604]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  89) St. Louis Bertrand Stained Glass Window - Fra Louis de Cancer de Barbastro, O.P. [814]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  90) Father Wilson Memorial Window - Irish Freedom and Dominican Education & Patriotism [83]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  91) North Transept Window - Early Dominican Educators in New York [257]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  92) St. Margaret of Hungary Sanctuary Stained Glass Window - Humbert de Romanis [55]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  93) St. Martin De Porres Sanctuary Stained Glass Window - Blessed Simon Ballachi [33]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  94) St. Rose of Lima Stained Glass Window - 'ROSE OF THE INDIES EMITS A SWEET ODOUR.' [614]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  95) St. John of Cologne Stained Glass Window - St. John Fisher (1469–1535) the Jesuit Bishop of Rochester [613]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  96) St. Antoninus Stained Glass Window - Blessed Laurence of Ripafatta - Fra Angelico [386]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  97) St. Albert the Great Stained Glass Window - St. Albert teaches St. Thomas Aquinas [522]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  98) Father George A. Wilson Memorial Stained Glass Window [143]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  99) South Transept Window - Bishop Richard Luke Concanen [411]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  100) Priory Building designed by by William Schickel [89]

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Unfinished -- St. Vincent Ferrer Church, New York City, New York
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St. Vincent Ferrer Church - New York City, New York
Unfinished



Like many of the older great buildings of the world St. Vincent Ferrer was never finished. There was to have been a 150-foot steeple, but money and construction problems (the Lexington Avenue subway runs underneath front of the church) prevented completion.





St. Vincent Ferrer
(b. 1350 Valencia, Spain – d. Vannes, France 1419)
was a Dominican friar. His father was an Englishman who had settled in Spain. He joined the Dominicans in 1367 and became a preacher and philosopher. Ferrer received his doctorate at Lleida, then the main university city of Catalonia. He converted Moslems and Jews (a rabbi convert became Bishop of Cartagena). He was best known for his lifelong preaching. Crowds followed him. His favorite subjects were the Last Judgment and Eternity.

The Council of Constance in 1414 tried to end the 1409 schism that begat different claimants to the papal throne. The Avignonese Pope Pedro de Luna (called Benedict XIII) invited Ferrer to Avignon, where Ferrer advised, but failed to get Pedro de Luna to reconcile with the Roman Pope Urban VI. Later Ferrer persuaded Ferdinand, King of Aragon, to withdraw his allegiance to Pedro de Luna, thus ending the schism.

Ferrer spent the end of his life (three years) in Normandy and Brittany, France. He was worn out from endless preaching. He had lived an austere life; the floor was his usual bed. When he died, a host of little white butterflies fluttered around his head. Joan of France, Duchess of Brittany and daughter of King Charles VI, washed Ferrer's corpse with her bare hands. Ferrer is the patron saint of builders because of his fame for 'building up' and strengthening the Church.








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