{"id":240788,"date":"2025-09-20T06:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240788\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T06:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:18:12","slug":"massive-mural-honoring-new-york-city-migrants-unveiled-at-st-patricks-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240788\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive mural honoring New York City migrants unveiled at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n \"Madalaine
\n <\/a><\/p>\n

By Madalaine Elhabbal<\/a>\n <\/p>\n

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 19, 2025 \/
\n 18:20 pm<\/p>\n

St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in Manhattan has unveiled a 25-foot-tall mural honoring migrants to New York City.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Housed in the entryway of the iconic New York church, the mural, \u201cWhat\u2019s So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding,\u201d portrays the apparition of Mary, Joseph, and St. John the Evangelist to the Irish village of Knock as well as immigrants from all over the world, including well-known figures such as Dorothy Day, Pierre Toussaint, and Alfred E. Smith.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The mural also shows the first Native American saint, Kateri Tekakwitha.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who is set to bless the mural this coming Sunday, said at a press briefing on Thursday<\/a>: \u201cThis became not only an ode to Jesus and Mary and Joseph and St. John and the faith of the Irish people who were so instrumental in this archdiocese, it also became an ode to those who followed them and found in this city, this country, and yes, in this Holy Mother Church, an embrace of welcome.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dolan, who will be joined for the official dedication by the rector of the Knock Shrine in Ireland, said he had intended the mural to go up with the last renovations at St. Patrick\u2019s in 2012 but was advised to wait.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m kind of glad now, because it matured \u2014 it was like a Crock-Pot,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Adam Cvijanovic, the mural\u2019s painter, said: \u201cI thought when I started making this painting that the important thing to do was to make it about people and portraits. So, everybody in this painting is an actual person. They\u2019re all portraits. Even the angels.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dolan\u2019s late mother, Shirley, was the model for one of the immigrants Cvijanovic portrayed. First responders are also depicted in the mural.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat seemed to me to be a really, really important thing to do,\u201d Cvijanovic continued, \u201cto talk about the people of the city, all of them, and to have it in some place that people could go in New York and feel themselves recognized in the context of respect and hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

Major benefactors covered the cost of the mural, according to Dolan.<\/p>\n

The cathedral\u2019s rector, Father Enrique Salvo, an immigrant from Nicaragua, weighed in on the mural, saying: \u201cIf you would have told me that I was going to be the rector of St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral when I came to this country, I would have never believed it. But with God, all things are possible, and hopefully it\u2019s an inspiration for everyone that walks in, that we\u2019re not only welcome, but we\u2019re also invited to make a difference and to let God shine through us.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n \"Madalaine
\n <\/a><\/p>\n

Madalaine Elhabbal is a staff reporter for Catholic News Agency, based at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of EWTN News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Madalaine Elhabbal Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 19, 2025 \/ 18:20 pm St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in Manhattan has…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,128692,17159,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,128693,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-240788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cardinal-timothy-dolan","10":"tag-catholic-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-st-patrick-cathedral","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115235173763644686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}