St. Francis Xavier Parish
Taos, Missouri

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St. Francis Xavier Church

---- The Buildings

---- The Altars

-------- Center Altar

--------St. Francis Xavier

-------- St. Francis Assisi 

---- The Masterpieces

---- Sanctuary Paintings

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---- 1998 Restoration

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The warm and evocative ceiling painting of Jesus and the children, as well as those of the four evangelists which are found on the side walls of the sanctuary, are all that is left from the original paint scheme of 1915. These paintings are on canvas and are bonded to the plaster. The artists are unknown. Itinerant artists who decorated churches for a living did much of this type of work. The ceiling painting was cleaned and restored by a former member of our parish.

The evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were cleaned. Along with the ceiling painting of Jesus, these were given a banding of color to frame the pictures and give them definition. The names, which appear in Latin under each saint, were part of the original decoration of the church. These had long ago been painted over. After carefully removing twenty layers of paint, these designs were discovered and recreated.