183, Paris, France, St Leo, a blow against ageism?
Now, despite all the perks he gets as patriarch, God the Father often gets literally left out of the picture - is this ageism, I wonder. He is forever being upstaged by his son and his son’s Mother. So it is nice to see, in the fresco above the altar here, a scene where GTF and JC are both represented, busy crowning Mary MoG.
This Art Deco influenced church is pointy on the outside, roundish on the inside and has a rare square baptismal font. The stations of the cross, which seem to be bas-relief in concrete, are also striking. The building of the church began in 1924.
The Leo in question is a fifth century bishop of Rome, and pope. He defended, sometimes by the sword, the idea that Christ was at the same time equally divine and human, and he gave a rough time to those who said He was basically only divine, or basically only human. He also worked hard to fight against Priscillianism, which was a religious current which did condemned things like meditating at home or in the mountains instead of attending church during Lent. They came to a sticky end.

























