Replica of an icon-style cross originally painted centuries ago, depicting how Catherine of Siena saw Christ with the stigmata.[/caption]
Name of church St. Catherine of Siena Newman Center
Address 170 S. University St., Salt Lake City UT 84102
Phone (801) 359-6066
Website www.stcatherineslc.org
Mass times Saturday vigil, 5 pm; Sundays, 8:30 am, 10:45 am, and 6:30 pm. Weekdays, 7 pm.
Confessions Saturdays, 4 pm. Sundays, 5:30 pm. Weekdays, 6:30 pm.
Names of priests Father Gabriel Mosher, O.P., pastor. Father Cody Hyacinth Jorgensen, O.P., director of campus ministry. Father Mosher has been pastor since 2022; he previously served with the Dominicans at Holy Rosary Parish in Portland, Oregon. He was ordained a priest in 2015. Father Jorgensen was ordained in 2019; he joined the Dominicans in 2011. His area of focus is sacred music and liturgy. The Dominicans have served the center since 1981.
Special parish activities adoration weekdays, 6-7 pm, Saturday, 4-5 pm, and Sunday, 5:30-6:15 pm; liturgy of the hours weekdays, 8:30 am and 6 pm and Saturdays, 8:30 am and 6:15 pm.
Parking There is street parking and a lot behind the church.
Additional observations St. Catherine of Siena is the Newman center church serving the students, faculty and administrators (and visitors) of the University of Utah. It is located across the street from the college. It was established in 1920 and is part of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, which encompasses the entire state of Utah. Among the center’s unique features is a replica of the Cross of the Stigmata, in front of the original of which St. Catherine of Siena received the wounds of Christ mystically on her hands and feet. It is behind the altar and stands 9.5 feet high by 6.5 feet wide.
A San Damiano Cross (an icon!) at a Dominican parish, nice. I did not know that about St. Catherine of Siena. That is the Cross before which Saint Francis heard our Lord say to him, “Go, rebuild my Church, which, as you see, is falling down.” It is believed to be an icon written by an Eastern Catholic, a Syrian monk.
St, Catherine of Siena was not even born when that happened.
Crucifix of the Stigmata
https://viafrancigena.visittuscany.com/site/en/points-of-interest/the-crucifix-of-the-stigmata-of-saint-catherine-siena/
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/08/09/replica-ancient-cross/
https://abcnadia.wixsite.com/nadia/icons
The artist’s icon page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Damiano_cross#/media/File:Kruis_san_damiano.gif
You will notice that the figures at the top of the crucifix are different.
The original cross, as it exists now, is missing two portions: one over Christ’s halo and the other beneath his feet. The replica adds those portions. On the bottom piece is a white rooster atop a cave that contains a skull. The upper piece has the traditional inscription above Christ’s head as well as an icon of Christ Pantocreator.
Similar images can be seen on crosses of the same era as the original, Fr. Jacek said.
“Whatever is missing from the [damaged] original was borrowed from crosses from the same period and the same [geographical] area, so nothing on this cross is made up,” he said.
When St. Catherine saw the original cross, it was about 200 years old.
http://www.icatholic.org/article/replica-of-the-cross-of-the-stigmata-installed-66212848