Our long-time contributor, and photographer extraordinaire, Fr Lawrence Lew OP, has kindly shared with us pictures of some new statues added to one of the chapels of the Church of St Dominic and Shrine of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in London. (https://rosaryshrine.co.uk/) The shrine has 14 side-chapels, each one dedicated to a mystery of the Rosary. The Joyful Mysteries and the first two Sorrowful ones run down the church’s left side-aisle, from near the main sanctuary toward the back; the latter three Sorrowful and first four Glorious go from the back up the right side-aisle. The fifth Glorious Mystery, the Coronation of the Virgin, is commemorated in the main apse around the high altar, which has recently been restored and re-gilded. The church also has a separate Lady Chapel with a Rosary Altar in the right transept, at which the Virgin Mary is also honored with the title “Seat of Wisdom”, in reference to the Dominican vocation to scholarship and teaching.
