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Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle

The Chapel

If you look to the right of the chapel’s organ, you can see a vigil light, with a very large diamond in the top. This was Colleen Moore’s mother’s engagement ring. When she died, she left it to Moore to put in the Fairy Castle.

The silver throne you see is a copy of the famous English throne in Westminster Abbey. The statue on the pedestal to the right is a bust of Pope Pius IX, and on the bottom is the seal of the Vatican. On the prayer bench in front of the altar is a small Bible printed in 1840. It is the smallest bible in the world, and is printed from real type. On the prayer bench is a small book depicting the lives of the saints, done in woodcuts. 

 


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