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CARMEN COURT CATHEDRAL
The
Carmen Cathedral itself is a large building, complete
with 2 bell towers, a small library, a rectory, 4
rooms that serve as quarters for the serving
priesthood, a small kitchen and conference room, an
office, and a basement that as one time was equipped
to serve as a fallout shelter. A small dormitory
sits next to the building, and a once beautiful
courtyard and small cemetery adorn the grounds.
Since then the building has become home to many homeless, who barricade the entrances every night for fear of the Dee-Zee raiding parties.
Primarily built from stone, the building is structurally sound for the most part, but is covered in graffiti, the floors are rotting, all the windows have been broken, including the once beautiful large stained glass window overlooking the pulpit, and years of neglect and abuse have simply furthered the urban decay of the site.
Father Mallory of Saint Helena’s has long been trying to raise money to restore the building, and James Yeager has long sought to demolish the building to reclaim the stone and usable wood that remains. The close proximity of the Dee-Zees makes both tasks entirely too risky however.
Word on the street is that somewhere in the Cathedral on the grounds, lies a treasure, the gold and silver that lied within the church, hidden just before Carnival. Though many have searched, no one has ever found this supposed treasure. |
| Written By Deric Bernier,
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The Carmen
Court Cathedral is one of the oldest churches in the
city. It was built when the area was still the
small town of Del Coronado, sometime in the
1930’s. It served the community as a place of
worship proudly, and it was one of the reasons the
area just north was chosen to be the site of the
Marsten Complex, as it would give the scads of low
cost workers who flocked to the area a place to
worship right next to their homes. 