Back: "Church page for March 30 30cms X 4" Front: "New St. Mary’s Church Mountain Rd., Man." Architect Victor Deneka designed the new St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church after Father Ruh’s church was struck by lightning and was burned to the ground in 1966.
St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church was struck by lightning and burned to the ground within hours. Only the cross in the foreground and the bell tower at the extreme left survived the flames.
The concrete footings and bell tower bear silence witness, with the unscathed fir trees, to the rubble that once was St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church. Built entirely of wood within eleven months, between 1924-1925, the church was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.
An unidentified witness of the ruin and rubble of St. Mary’s Catholic Church which was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. The bell tower, in the centre of the photo, survived the rapid flames.
An unidentified man stands on the concrete steps, pondering the rubble, surrounded by the unscathed fir trees which survived the rapid blaze when St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.
The rubble remaining of St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, which was struck by lightning. The first church built by Father Ruh in Manitoba, it was built entirely of wood on concrete footings.
Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk, C.S.s.R., second from the left, blesses with holy water the patron of Father Ruh’s home parish, the Blessed Virgin Mary, of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. In the photo on the right the painting is borne outside, on the church grounds. See Grotto pillars in back, top. Cook's Creek, Manitoba.
Photo postcard of St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, designed by Father Ruh in 1924 and built entirely of wood within eleven months. The design included three galleries. The church was struck by lightning in the summer of 1966 and burned to the ground.