{"id":5179,"date":"2011-03-23T13:53:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T18:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2011-03-24T10:20:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T15:20:38","slug":"the-royal-review-32311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/03\/23\/the-royal-review-32311\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Marys students visit Kalida church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Nancy Replogle &amp; Beverly Wolke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sixth grade students at St. Mary of the Assumption School recently visited St. Michael\u2019s Church in Kalida. The students studied Roman and Greek\u00a0 architecture in social studies this year and this beautiful church is<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5180\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3-23-11-rr-church-interior.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Romanesque in style. Besides the shape of a basilica it also has the three<br \/>\ntypes of Greek columns: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. The stained glass<br \/>\nwindows, which picture the Mysteries of the Rosary, are valued at 3 million<br \/>\ndollars and cost $14,000 in 1939. They were shipped from Germany just 2 days before WW II began. Every part of the church&#8217;s decoration shows symbolism, such as 33 blocks in the ceiling to represent the years of Jesus\u2019 life and a painting at the top of the columns to represent each apostle and Gospel writer. The students had a good review of Catholic symbols as well as architecture.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Mathew explained to the sixth graders how our water is treated to be safe for drinking after it is pumped from a reservoir. He explained how our<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5181\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3-23-11-rr-mathew-science.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>water is treated at the end of the cycle after it has been used in a community. Factories and streets, as well as our homes and farms, all contribute to pollution of our water. He then showed the students how wastewater is treated so the water can be safely put back into the river.<br \/>\nThe class is studying renewable and non-renewable resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nancy Replogle &amp; Beverly Wolke The sixth grade students at St. Mary of the Assumption School recently visited St. Michael\u2019s Church in Kalida. The students studied Roman and Greek\u00a0 architecture in social studies this year and this beautiful church is Romanesque in style. Besides the shape of a basilica it also has the three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stmaryscolumn"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 04:55:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}