Tears

accompany closing of St. Paulinus Church in Clairton


"The building committee studied the architecture of many European churches to come up with a design. 'The works of Medieval craftsmen were copied in several instances,' church history indicates. That includes the bell tower, which was modeled after the towers of the walled city of Carcassonne, France, and the ciborium, a wooden canopy over the altar, which was said to be made of the wood from abandoned riverboats and decorated with designs copied from a cathedral in Sicily."