A more detailed model of the new chapel, baptistery and cortile is gradually taking shape. If you look inside the chapel you can see the amber light shed over the altar, back-lighting the sculptured group, which appears to represent the Transverberation of Blessed John Henry Newman, and is meant to remind you of the Bernini sculpture in Rome of St Teresa. On either side of the altar are statues of St Athanasius, Newman's first love, the saint who aught him about the Development of Doctrine, and St Francis de Sales, whose portrait hangs in Newman's private chapel.
Of course, it may take some time before these greatr works of art are ready. What we hope to do this generation is to get the structure of the chapel up and useable.
