(Community Matters) I’m mostly posting at Squirrels In the Attic while with Michael in Houston at MD Anderson.
Loved our middle of the day respite to the Byzantine Fresco Chapel.
The dome and apse were stolen from a Cyprus chapel during a Turkish occupation in the
1980s. The Menils were
approached about purchasing the pieces and subsequently did, cooperating with the Cyprian government. Architect François de Menil designed the Houston chapel, where they’re housed on loan, following a tradition of housing sacred objects in a reliquary box, casket-like cases, one within another.
In awe of all the Menil’s have contributed to Houston. Similar thoughts of the Dells and other families when in the Children’s Hospital. Same of Longs, Kodoskys, Merediths, Rollins, Nowlins, Thorntons, Aragonas and all the families underwriting Austin’s public infrastructure.
