The Garden Club of Virginia held the annual Historical Garden Week tours April 24. The tours included six homes and properties containing cabins on the Potomac River, restored colonial homes, a three-generation garden and St. Paul Mission in Hague.
St. Paul, surrounded by farmland, was selected as the headquarters to the Historic Garden Week Northern Neck tour. Approximately 600 people visited the new country-style church through the gothic shaped entranceway.
Father Andrew J. Heintz, parochial vicar, welcomed guests to the church and gave a brief history of the mission parish. The Ladies of St. Paul provided tours, highlighting the baptismal font, shrines and sanctuary. The Infant of Prague and Blessed Karl of Austria shrine is a remembrance of our founding fathers who were Austro-Hungarians. The Our Lady of Guadalupe and San Joselito Sanchez del Rio shrines honor current immigrants. St. Paul’s altar is from Spain and has an inlaid image of the Last Supper.
The beautiful flower arrangements that framed the altar and shrines were created by the Garden Club of Virginia. The arrangements consisted of wisterias, tulips and azaleas highlighting the elegance of the church.
Following the tours, the Leesburg String Quartet performed a mix of spring garden songs.
