Feast of King Belshazzar, Writing on the Wall, Painted Church, Big Island, Hawaii

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Feast of King Belshazzar, Writing on the Wall, Painted Church, Big Island, Hawaii
Feast of King Belshazzar, Writing on the Wall, Painted Church, Big Island, Hawaii

Excerpt from thepaintedchurchhawaii.org/guide-to-the-painted-church/:

This present church was erected in 1899 by Father John Velghe. He was a Belgian and a member of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Society, familiarly known as the Picpus Fathers. Father Damien, the Leper Priest, was a member of this Society. Without any professional training and using house paint on ordinary wood he beautified the church with his paintings. In those days few Hawaiians could read and so he taught with pictures-most successfully. He spent over four years with saw and brush to complete the structure and was then recalled to Belgium where he died in 1939.

The exterior of the church is noted for the belfry, called a little master-piece, and the lattice work entry. Inside, the eye is overpowered by a reproduction of the vaulted Gothic nave of the Cathedral of Burgos in Spain. Father John had studied theology for two years in a town close by. Fortunately, he didn’t realize such an illusionary perspective, the sense of depth, was considered impossible and so he went ahead and did it. The mat behind the altar covers nothing, it was a devise of the artist.

The Hardwriting on the Wall at the Feast of King Belshazzar. On the wall is written in Hawaiian, “Ua Emi Loa Oe Ua Pau Kou Aupuni / Make No Ka Pono” literally, “You are found wanting. Your kingdom ceases. Should die.”

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