| Amanda Vessel, "The Making of a Landmark:
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| | cost of $25,000. More building projects
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| St. Anthony's Cathedral, Beaumont,
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| | included a brick rectory in 1922, a high
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| Texas," Touchstone, vol. XIX (2000),
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| | school in 1926, and an outdoor recreation
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| 48-58.This article explores the history
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| | area in 1928. In 1937, Father Kelly began
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| and symbolic and cultural significance of
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| | restoring and decorating the interior of
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| St. Anthony's Cathedral in Beaumont,
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| | St. Anthony's. Father Kelly added oil
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| Texas. Amanda Vessel asserts that this
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| | paintings and stained glass windows at a
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| Catholic Church has special meanings for
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| | cost of $32,000. In 1953, a new grammar
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| their parishioners. St. Anthony's
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| | school was constructed to accommodate an
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| physical appearance is very symbolic. The
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| | increasing student enrollment. This
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| floor plan is shaped like a cross and the
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| | school cost $400,000 and is still in use
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| statues and other works of art represent
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| | today.Monsignor Kelly retired from his
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| many tenets of the Catholic faith.Before
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| | position as pastor of St. Anthony's in
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| 1897, and the coming of Father William
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| | August 1954, and he passed away six
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| Lee, the Catholic Church in Beaumont, St.
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| | months later. His successor, Reverend
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| Louis, was very small and Spartan. In
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| | George Black, constructed a new high
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| 1901, the discovery of oil led to an
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| | school and a new convent in 1961. In
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| influx of people and oil-related
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| | 1972, Father Marvin Enderle began
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| businesses. As a result, St. Louis became
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| | restoration of the church's interior, and
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| too small to accommodate the increasing
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| | he added a parking lot for the church in
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| Catholic population, and Father Lee
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| | 1979. In 1995, under Father Beenie
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| proposed building a new church. This
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| | Patillo, St. Anthony's had developed a
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| church was built according to Father
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| | parish center.The evolution of St.
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| Lee's design, and it was dedicated in
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| | Anthony's from a Spartan church to the
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| January 1907, in honor of St. Anthony of
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| | beautiful structure that is an historical
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| Padua. Next Father Lee started a new
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| | landmark in Beaumont involved many
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| grammar school and the former school was
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| | different pastors and generations of the
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| moved to be a convent for the nuns who
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| | Catholic parishioners. St. Anthony's is
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| taught at the schools. Father Lee did not
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| | more than a place of worship; the church
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| live to see the completion of the grammar
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| | is involved in numerous aspects of its
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| school in September 1918; he died in July
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| | parishioners' lives. Thus, St. Anthony's
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| of that year and was buried in St.
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| | is very important to the Catholics in
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| Anthony's at the foot of the altar.Father
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| | Beaumont.Mary Arnold graduated from
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| E. A. Kelly, Father Lee's successor,
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| | University of Houston - Clear Lake with a
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| arrived in Beaumont while the city was
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| | B.A. in literature and history.She is an
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| still experiencing the economic
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| | author on which is a site for Creative
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| prosperity from the oil boom. He decided
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| | Writing.
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| to build a new convent for the nuns at a
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