Mountain Road Church. Parishioners gather in front of the old church while others enter the central door of the new St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, designed by Father Ruh. The all-wood structure was built within eleven months between 1924 and 1925.
Mountain Road Church. St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, designed by Father Ruh and built entirely of wood within eleven months between 1924 and 1925.
[Translation of the back:] The white cross is of a Pater of the Holy Ghost, he died six months after his arrival in Sierra Leon. So he was a priest for only about seven months, at the most eight, quite young - The black cross signifies the grave of our dead sister –
[The grave of Soeur Stanislaus, Father Ruh’s sister, Marianne, who took her vows in 1901 and died while a missionary sister in Sierra.]