Cross at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Cincinnati   Save
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Description: View of the cross erected at the Church of the Immaculate Conception or Immaculata Church in the Mount Adams/Mount Ida neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The church was built in 1859 for the German Catholic population of the area, and from 1860 to present it has been a pilgrimage church. In 1977, it absorbed the nearby Irish parish of Holy Cross. The church was listed National Register of Historic Places in 1978. An attached piece of paper reads "GOOD FRIDAY PILGRIMAGE, CINCINNATI. Pilgrims at the cross erected outside the Church of the Immaculate Conception. 'On Good Friday devout Catholics perform a colorful pilgrimage up several flights of steps from the foot of E. Third St. in self-communion, then 103 steps to the CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, Pavillion and Guide Sts., receive blessings from a fragment of the true cross, climb steps to the Holy Cross Monastery and Church, and pass reverently through the dim "grotto" beneath the church and then into the church.'-Cincinnati City Treatment. "Above the head of Jesus is inscribed: INRI (Iesus Nazarenum Rex Iudaeorum). Note the two boys with legs astraddle the iron fence, straining to touch the cross. Federal Writers' Photographer, Cincinnati. March 26, 1937." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F08_009_001
Subjects: Crosses; Catholic Church--United States; Religion in Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)