The Eye is also in the eye of the beholder. When Saint Jerome’s,
a church in the South Bronx, was constructed at the turn of the
20th century, it was built by immigrant artisans, mostly from
Ireland and Italy, where the human eyes were often blue. So of
course, they imagined the All-Seeing Eye of God as blue also,
and that’s just how they painted the giant Eye-of-God mural on
their church ceiling. Now the neighborhood has changed, and
almost all the services are in Spanish for the brown-eyed
Mexicans who now live there. It came to be time to restore the
mural, and so now God’s Eye is brown. This is the story. Posted
in Immigrants and Ethnic Life, Religion, Spirituality,
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