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• Faith Enduring

You find it in the smallest 30-seater church like in Gardenton, east of Emerson, and in "prairie cathedrals" like Cook's Creek. Some churches, like the Holy Resurrection Church in Dauphin, now a museum, have virtually every blank space of wall and ceiling painted with ornamental designs and religious figures, called icons. The Dauphin church was brilliantly painted by Theodore Baran of Saskatoon, whose work enlivens over 70 Ukrainian Catholic churches in mostly Western Canada. One prominent painter was Jacob Maydanak, a humourist-cartoonist by trade. Not only did he paint interiors of Ukrainian churches like in Fisher Branch and Olha, but he recruited budding artists like Leo Mol to help. Mol's stained glass beautifies many Ukrainian churches in Winnipeg and the St. Mary's Ukrainian Cat...

... green and yellow, but also the colours of nature. The ceiling is a sky: pale blue with black stars....He was born in 1883 in Alsace-Lorraine, then German territory and now in France....

• Winnipeg Free Press
• November 17, 2009