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World's Largest Crucifix.

World's Largest Crucifix

Bardstown, Kentucky

An outdoor sculpture built in 1986, it is sixty feet high, "welded of stainless steel rods, garment of wire-cloth, hair of copper." It battles and barely bests a more traditional rendition of a crucifix, the 55-footer in Indian River, Michigan. The one in Bardstown overlooks a cemetery, and is spindly, like a ship's mast.

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World's Largest Crucifix

Saint Thomas Church

Address:: 870 Saint Thomas Lane, Bardstown, KY
Directions:: St Thomas Church. South of town. About a mile south of the Blue Grass Parkway on US Hwy 31E.

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