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Inside the Adelaide Catholic Cathedral
 


Looking through the Nave to the Altar
 

 

 

 

 

Embroidered detail from the altar cloth of Christ the Lamb
 

 

 

Looking back to the entrance doors with the square glass panels and the rose window above
 

The shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in St Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Cathedral completed & dedicated in 1954.
It includes a statue of Our Lady of Fatima which was ordered from Portugal and carved by Guilhermo Thedim
from a block of Brazilian rosewood (1949). - and below.
 

 

The ceiling
 

The Pulpit
 
Both the font and the statue of St John the Baptist behind were carved in 1925
from marble by the Luigi Tommasi studio in Tuscany.
 

 

The Archbishop's Throne
 
 

The Tabernacle

St Francis Xavier in the Foyer of the cathedral
 

Examples of the floor tiles
 
 


A 360 degree panorama of the inside of St. Francis Xavier cathedral

more inside the church, including windows >>

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