as if a new chapel had been cut into the wall. At the time it was painted, the realism of this picture was so startling that viewers could well have believed the Holy Trinity was actually right ...

Grace Bateman sits on a bench overlooking the curving wall of a new columbarium at Holy Rood Cemetery in Glover Park. A parishioner at Holy Trinity, Grace helped revive the dilapidated graveyard.

His masterpiece was a massive fresco painted above the main altar at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Lorain. • The fresco, which took him a year to paint, beginning in 1946, features God the ...