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Halifax Magazine | Tammy Fancy
Detailed historic murals decorated the inside of St. Mary’s Basilica until the 1950s, when, for reasons unrecorded, they were painted over.
National Post | Michael Murray
HALIFAX — Perched on a scaffold high above the altar in St. Mary’s Cathedral in Halifax, art conservator Jennifer Fotheringham was using a scalpel to chip away a thick layer of white paint when she heard something odd.
CBC News Network | Brett Ruskin
The walls of St. Mary's Basilica were covered in thick white paint in the 1950s, and no one was sure why. A restoration for the church's 200th anniversary revealed the answer: damage from stained glass windows shattered in the 1917 Halifax Explosion.
CBC News | Amy Smith
Shards of glass from Halifax Explosion found embedded in Saint Mary's Basilica mural