That happened the first time “Christa,” Ms. Sandys’s sculpture of a crucified woman, was shown at the cathedral in Manhattan during Holy Week in 1984. “It was startling then,” said Ms. Sandys, who is a granddaughter of Winston Churchill and whose name is pronounced “sands.” “Now? And the display came five years before the consecration of a woman as a bishop in the Episcopal Church, the Rev. “He ran right over there with a camera and all, and there I was plastered all over The Daily Express,” Ms. Sandys said. “We weren’t deliberately trying to open this just before the election,” Dean Kowalski said.

Source: New York Times October 05, 2016 00:29 UTC