Scenic Adelaide, Sites And Stories of South Australia

St. Augustine’s Church Salisbury

Friday, October 17th, 2008 at 3:12 am

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The St. Augustine’s Chapel in Salisbury is a heritage listed building that was completed in 1857. Surprisingly building commenced in 1851 when the foundation stone was laid but it face a few problems and construction was delayed because of the Victorian Gold Rush. I reckon a whole lot of people decided they would try their fortunes intestate for awhile. It seems that it wasn’t the luckiest project as both the architect Walter Hunter and the builder Peter Walsh died within the first year.

This is a picture taken from the rear of the church, and I reckon that the crosses look very Gothic. I also thought it strange that there was two of them.

The front of the church is also rather unique in that the tower is similar to that of a small castle.

I once attended a wedding in this chapel and it was very beautiful inside. Unfortunately there was no information displayed anywhere in regards to hiring it out so I am not sure if it is still used for weddings and such.

This Roman Catholic church can be found on Commercial Road Salisbury, next to the newer St. Augustine’s Church and school.

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Poetry In Adelaide’s Hurtle Square

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 at 1:45 am

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Who said that there was no poetry in Adelaide? To prove them wrong I searched high and low until I found a beautiful piece of poetry right in Hurtle Square. Of all places it was placed on a pigeon drinking fountain.

Yeah, I know that it’s a little hard to see, so let me recite it for you.

Address To The Pigeons In Hurtle Square

The pigeons in the square
Are pert and debonair.
Plumped out with scattered scraps.
They cease to fear mishaps, Accost me as I walk,
With wheedling salesman’s talk.
And when I don’t provide
They jostle me aside.
Security we know
Is mortals chiefest foe,
And Shakespeare’s warning words
Embrace both men and birds.
They end who this defy
Cat’s lunch or pigeon pie.
So fly, bludging crew,
And don’t shit on my shoe.

Not bad huh, we Aussies can display the word shit in public.

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Pilgrim Uniting Church In The Heart Of Adelaide

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 5:43 am

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The Pilgrim Uniting Church can be found right in the City of Adelaide. It is a beautiful church that seems to be dwarfed by the buildings around it. Construction of the church began in 1865 and was completed in 1867. The builders, Brown and Thompson worked from plans designed by the architect Robert George Thomas who just happened to win the design competition that was held in 1864.

The Pilgrim Uniting Church even has their own web page that is full of useful information including service times, link to a google map so that you can find it and you can even make it your home page. All that and a PR3, now that is what I call pretty good going.

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Festa Di Madonna Di Montevergine Is Upon Us

Saturday, September 6th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

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Awhile back I did a post on The Feast Of The Madonna Di Montevergine describing what it is all about and how it happens every year on the last day of September. Well it’s that time again and this year it falls on the 28th of September. Even though that post didn’t generate many comments it did get quite a lot of ‘hits’ and so I got the idea to do a followup post listing the upcoming events starting on Monday the 22nd.

Monday 7.30pm Mary Font of Light and Life. An evening of prayer for vocations.
Tuesday 7.30pm Mary New Woman. An evening of prayer for our families
Wednesday 7.30pm Mary Servant Of Our Lord. An evening for our children and young adults. (English/Italian Liturgy) with distribution of Blessed Medals.
Thursday 7.30pm Mary Mother Of Mercy. An evening of prayer and anointing for our sick and elderly.
Friday 7.30pm Mary Woman Of The Hour. An evening of special prayers for our deceased and Procession of the Holy Cross.
Saturday, 6.00 pm Parish Vigil Mass (English). 26th Sunday Of Ordinary Time. Year “A”

Sunday Feast Day

9.00am Recital of the Holy Rosary in the Church of the Annunciation, Hectorville, led by the prayer group “Rosario Vivente”.
9.20am Procession from the Hectorville Church via Montacute Road, Newton Road and Graves Street. All Religious Associations are kindly invited to participate. Parents are encouraged to bring their daughters, dressed in white.
10.30am CON-CELEBRATED SOLEMN HOLY MASS by Padre D. Riccardo Luca Guariglia OSB accompanied by the choir San Francesco.
12.00 noon The Dame of Montevergine will prepare a lunch for everybody; proceeds will be donated to charities.
1.00pm Concert by the GUISEPPE VERDI BAND
3.30PM Popular local singers.
4.00pm Holy Rosary and Benediction, followed by family Mass
5.00pm Monteverdi Singers
6.00pm Elite Accordian Group
7.30pm Musical extravaganza: JOEY FIMMANO’S ITALIAN DELIGHT
10.00pm Fireworks

And the fireworks bring the festivities of the day to an end.

There is a lot happening after the Holy Mass icluding a lot of stalls offering Italian specialty foods such as Zeppoles, pasta, cakes and other delecacies. There is also a Souvenir stand offering many religious items and souevenirs including DVDs of the previous Festa which you can recognize by the following image.

They will retail for $15 per DVD and it’s the first time the Festa has been captured on DVD. The image of the Madonna was superimposed on the Large Copper Doors of the Church itself.

I want to give a special thanks to Nicola Zollo for supplying me with the information for this post.

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The Rundle Mall Balls Meeting Place For Young And Old

Saturday, August 30th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

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Adelaide’s Rundle Mall, home of over 600 retailers, is definitely the shopping hub of the State. These Stainless Steel Balls are centrally located and is definitely one of the preferred meeting places of young and old alike.The balls stand 4m tall and were commissioned by the Hindmarsh Building Society and donated to the City of Adelaide in 1977.

The sculptor, Bert Flugelman, decided to place them one above the other as if in a precarious balancing act and it is not unusual to see tourists having their photo taken in front of them.