Glass and mural in the great churches: St. Pius X settled by firm and program; the train mural's gap stands

2017–2019 and standing · St. Pius X, Granger Community Church, and the Martin's mural

The test: The checklist's stained-glass half had never been run for this ground at all — the words appear in no banked fragment — though Churches & Religion documents the buildings whole: St. Pius X's great church of 2017 and Granger Community Church's plant among them. The test was run against the diocesan paper, the parishes' own pages, and the fabricators' project records. It returns the richest single art commission on this ground.

St. Pius X: the mural and mosaic program, settled: The new St. Pius X church was dedicated on Saturday, March 25, 2017, by Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades — 1,320 worshipers in 112 pews and 104 additional seats, a Romanesque building in a three-part, $19 million project (new rectory, new church, renovation of the former church as the Parish Life Center) for a parish of some 3,200 families. The decorative program was executed by EverGreene Architectural Arts, whose project record for St. Pius X (2017) names the work kind by kind: a celestial pattern on the sanctuary dome; the triumphal-arch tympanum mural of Christ flanked by angels and twelve sheep; the communion of saints and the figures of St. Peter and St. Pius X rendered in mosaic style; apostle medallions on the clerestory bays; twelve transept lunettes of stags drinking; stenciling, faux quoining and Petrine symbolism throughout — designed with Alliance Architects and William Heyer Architects for the pastor, Fr. Bill Schooler. The diocesan account of the dedication independently carries the mural above the altar depicting several saints, Blessed Basil Moreau among them, and the crucifix base modeled on the Holy Cross coat of arms. This is a named firm, a named program and a dated building: the commission stands settled at full size.

The stained glass, and a conflict printed as it stands: The parish's own tour of its church describes extensive stained glass — clerestory windows rendering the Apostles' Creed in symbols, the Assumption of Mary above the Risen Christ, the Seven Sacraments in scene, an Annunciation in the sacristy, Christ washing the feet, and a floor-to-ceiling Risen Christ. Against that stands the diocese's own paper: at the blessing of August 18, 2019, reported in Today's Catholic on August 21, 2019, Bishop Rhoades joked that he could "come back and bless the stained-glass windows because we don't have them yet," and Msgr. Schooler's bulletin note framed the 2019 blessing as concluding the project begun with the new church. The two sources are not reconciled here: as of August 2019, by the diocesan record, the new church's stained glass was not yet installed; the parish tour page describes the glass in the present tense without dating its installation. The glass program therefore stands as documented in design and description, with its installation dated only as after August 2019 in the record reached. The settler is the parish's building and dedication file and the fabricator's contract record, which will fix the glass's maker and date the way EverGreene's record fixed the murals'.

Granger Community Church: No stained-glass or mural commission of record was found for Granger Community Church in the sources reached; its documented identity is a modern auditorium plant, and no fabricator's project record under its name appears beside EverGreene's St. Pius X entry. The church-glass record of this ground is, on present evidence, one parish's — and it is printed at that size.

The train mural: The mural half's old gap stands unchanged. No source reached in this section names the artist or date of the Martin's supermarket train mural; the banked register's GAP-ART-4 is neither filled nor contradicted here, and its settler remains the Granger Gazette back file and Martin's corporate record.

Sources:

1. Today's Catholic (Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend) — dedication of the new St. Pius X church, March 25, 2017, by Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades; building capacity, Romanesque design, altar mural and $19M project scope.
2. EverGreene Architectural Arts, project record: St. Pius X Parish, Granger, 2017 — murals and mosaics program itemized; Alliance Architects and William Heyer Architects; Fr. Bill Schooler.
3. Today's Catholic, August 21, 2019 — Bishop Rhoades's blessing of August 18, 2019; the stained-glass remark, quoted; Msgr. Schooler's bulletin note.
4. St. Pius X parish, "Tour of the Renovation" (saintpiusxchurch.com) — the stained-glass program described window by window, undated; conflict with the 2019 diocesan account stated in the entry, not resolved.
5. Arts (banked) — GAP-ART-4, the Martin's train mural's artist and date unknown; carried forward unsettled, settler unchanged.