<P> The front features three sets of double doors of copper and bronze . Over the entrance is a figure of Mary and the words "Domus Mea Domus Orationis Est" which translated from the Latin is "My House is a House of Prayer" taken from Isaiah 56: 7 . </P> <P> Statues of Mary, Joseph, St. Anne with Mary, Divine Mercy, St. Therese, St. Roch, Pius X, the communion rail, and back altar are all made of Italian Carrara marble . The altars and communion rails were a donation by George Washington Hill, the president of the American Tobacco Company . The red and green colors of the mosaic work on the main altar correspond to the original colors on a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes . </P> <P> All of the stained glass windows, stations of the cross, and mosaic "Our Lady Star of the Sea" were purchased after World War I from Tyrolese Art Glass Company in Innsbruck, Austria for $22,000 . In 1961, the windows were appraised for $150,000 . The Stations of the Cross were appraised at $16,000 at that time . </P> <P> A notable stained glass window is entitled "Christ and the Battlefield ." The window was created from a design made by the church pastor, Eugene M. Cullinane . It is a World War I memorial to "all Jacksonians serving in the Armed Forces and to the nuns and nurses who cared for them on the battlefields ." At the right of the scene are soldiers and sailors arriving on shore, bearing the American flag and supporting the wounded . To the left are other soldiers and a Sister of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul tending a fallen nurse . Behind them St. Mary looks upward toward figures of Christ and attending angels </P>

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