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NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
ST MARY'S STAR OF THE SEA CHURCH 
Beautiful New House of Worship Dedicated Last Sunday. De- 
scription of Church and Its Interior Decorations. 
The beautiful new St. Mary’s Star of 
the Sea Catholic church at Beverly was 
dedicated last Sunday, with the usual im- 
posing ceremonies that goes with such 
an event. ‘Iwo services were held, 
solemn high mass in the morning and 
solemn vespers in the evening, and the 
magnificent edifice was crowded on both 
occasions. ‘The services were particular- 
ly impressive and were graced by the 
presence of Archbishop William H. 
O’ Connell of Boston, and other digni- 
taries of the church. 
The dedication of the new edifice is 
of special interest to Manchester and 
Beverly Farms people, as the churches 
in both of these places were formerly 
under Rev. Fr. Francis J. Curran, the 
pastor of the Beverly church, and Fr. 
Curran and his assistants, Rev. Edward 
T. McKenna, Rev. John McKenna and 
Rev. John F. Curran are loved by the 
people of these two communities because 
of past associations. 
Furthermore, people on this part of the 
North Shore, especially members of our 
summer colony, have given liberally to- 
ward the Beverly church,. and to them 
the dedication of the new church is of 
great interest. 
Weare indebted to a friend of the 
paper for the following description of the 
interior of the church. 
Description of the Church. 
The exterior lines of St. Mary’s 
church, Beverly, are so familiar to the 
passer-by that there is no need of de- 
scribing them. Now, however, that the 
edifice is, interiorly as well as exteriorly, 
completed, the honest judgment of the 
observer must be that it stands very high 
in the category of our tasteful and har- 
monious temples. Rare altar elabor- 
ation, sculptural elegance, delicate 
tracery, richness of window treatment, 
and a well balanced color symphony, 
give ample evidence of careful and ar- 
tistic effort in the work which, begun a 
EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE CHURCH. 
year ago last spring, reached its culmin- 
ation in the splendid ceremonial of last 
Sunday. 
The apse-crown, a noble half-dome 
built on spherical arc-lines, is glor ously 
Rev. Fr. Francis J. CURRAN. 
filled by a group-painting (The Church 
Triumphant—by Geroni), which dom- 
inates the whole interior of the edifice. 
Immediately under the frieze that serves 
as a base to this picture, the curved wall 
of the apse is pierced by five single 
bay Roman windows in dignified figure 
work, the intervening spaces standing 
out in old rose with generous bor: e ‘ing. 
Rev. Fr. E. T. McKenna 
A richly moulded, ivory-tinted cornice 
stretches along the whole length of the 
apse wall under these windows, acting 
also as the topping for five mural paint- 
ings (also by Geroni), which depict the 
five great scriptural sacrifices. The sep- 
