{"id":141,"date":"2017-05-09T14:39:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T18:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/?page_id=141"},"modified":"2018-10-19T14:54:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T18:54:32","slug":"the-raggi-sanctuary-murals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/an-artistic-and-symbolic-description\/the-raggi-sanctuary-murals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Raggi Sanctuary Murals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gonippo Raggi was born in Rome, Italy, in 1875. He studied at the Art Institute of S. Michele in Rome. He came to the United States in 1904 at the invitation of Papal Marquis Martin Maloney to supervise the decoration of St. Catherine\u2019s Memorial Church in Spring Lake, New Jersey. Maloney had erected the church as a memorial to his daughter, Catherine. Raggi drew the attention of Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Walsh, then bishop of Trenton. When Walsh became bishop of Newark, he encouraged Raggi to continue his work in the Newark diocese.<\/p>\n<p>Raggi was internationally acclaimed as a portraitist and ecclesiastical artist. He provided murals for many churches and church institutions in the United States and supervised the decoration of the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. He died in 1959.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the murals Raggi executed for St. Patrick\u2019s are no longer in place. Painted on canvas and held by adhesive to the walls, they succumbed to damage from water and from time.<\/p>\n<p>Some, however, remain. Along the lower wall of the sanctuary are Raggi\u2019s paintings of angels kneeling on either side of the coats of arms of the first five bishops of Newark. They were completed in 1929.<\/p>\n<p>From left to right are the coats of arms of:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_532\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-532\" style=\"width: 321px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0020-3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-532\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0020-3-349x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0020-3-349x210.jpg 349w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0020-3-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0020-3-832x500.jpg 832w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0020-3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Roosevelt Bayley<br \/>First Bishop of Newark<br \/>Later Archbishop of Baltimore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-533\" style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0021-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-533\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0021-1-382x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0021-1-382x210.jpg 382w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0021-1-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0021-1-910x500.jpg 910w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0021-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Augustine Corrigan<br \/>Second Bishop of Newark<br \/>Later Archbishop of New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-534\" style=\"width: 319px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0022-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-534\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0022-1-406x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0022-1-406x210.jpg 406w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0022-1-768x398.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0022-1-966x500.jpg 966w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0022-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winand Michael Wigger<br \/>Third Bishop of Newark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-535\" style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0023-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-535\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0023-1-397x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0023-1-397x210.jpg 397w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0023-1-768x406.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0023-1-946x500.jpg 946w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0023-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Joseph O&#8217;Connor<br \/>Fourth Bishop of Newark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-536\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0024-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-536\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0024-1-395x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0024-1-395x210.jpg 395w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0024-1-768x409.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0024-1-939x500.jpg 939w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0024-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Joseph Walsh<br \/>Fifth Bishop of Newark<br \/>First Archbishop of Newark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Coats of arms of Archbishops Bayley and Corrigan have ten tassels on either side of the green prelatial hat. The crosses have two bars. These indicate their status as archbishops.<\/p>\n<p>The coats of arms of Bishops Wigger and O\u2019Connor have six tassels and their crosses have one bar. These indicate their status as bishops. For an unknown reason, perhaps chemical changes in the paint, the hat over Bishop O\u2019Connor\u2019s coat of arms is reddish in color, rather than the proper green for bishops and archbishops.<\/p>\n<p>The Walsh coat of arms was originally painted as that of a bishop with six tassels and a cross with one bar, proper for a bishop. When he became archbishop in 1938 it was altered and eight\u00a0tassels added. However, the artist forgot to double the bar, producing a hybrid coat of arms.<\/p>\n<p>Beneath each coat of arms is a motto on a scroll. The mottoes are in Latin. The motto of Bishop O&#8217;Connor was <em>Sapientia Desursum<\/em>, \u201cWisdom from above.\u201d Raggi mistakenly painted <em>Sapienza<\/em>, the Italian word for wisdom, rather than <em>Sapientia<\/em>, the proper Latin word.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/an-artistic-and-symbolic-description\/the-nave-windows\/\" title=\"The Nave Windows\">The Nave Windows<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/an-artistic-and-symbolic-description\/the-raggi-nave-paintings\/\" title=\"The Raggi Nave Paintings\">The Raggi Nave Paintings<\/a> \u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gonippo Raggi was born in Rome, Italy, in 1875. He studied at the Art Institute of S. Michele in Rome. He came to the United&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/an-artistic-and-symbolic-description\/the-raggi-sanctuary-murals\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Raggi Sanctuary Murals<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":86,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-141","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions\/538"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/st-patricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}