The 2,000-pound bronze bell was installed in 1866 when ... Named the "Immaculate Conception," the bell was cast in New York and inscribed with the words "Mary conceived without sin, pray for ...

Every instrument has its ‘holy grails’, and as far as snare drums are concerned, there are many. But while so much of our ...

Macao was an ideal place to cast bronze cannon, particularly because ... St Lawrence’s Church is said to have a Bocarro bell (dated 1633), as well as St Michael’s Chapel next to Guia lighthouse.

Cast in 2016, the original Honor Bell contains donated artifacts from ... “We have Purple Hearts, Bronze Stars, a piece of the USS Arizona and other artifacts that these families have kept ...

A project to cast a new bell for an atomic-bombed cathedral in the Japanese city of Nagasaki is underway in the US Midwest state of Missouri. The plan is being funded by Catholics in the US.

Nothing on this scale would be cast in Europe until the Middle ... You had, so to speak, a pint bell or a quart bell. And as the amount of bronze in each one was also carefully controlled, they ...