Rev. Stephen P. Walsh’s webpage on the Saint Mary Magdalene Parish website tells, “It was in the late 1940’s that Msgr. Walsh had the area under the main church converted to the Chapel. Traditions says that the wall mosaics were painted by a returning World War II veteran named Smith whom Msgr. Walsh engaged to copy them from postcards from the Holy Land. Most of the statues and appointments came from the earlier church building.”
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“Stephen P. Walsh,”
https://saintmarymagdalenepgh.org/stephen-p-walsh