Manresa Men's Retreat has chosen and new Phoenix Organ PT234 for the Scared Heart Chapel on the campus. The Phoenix PT234 with it's well-rounded stop list and six-audio channels will fill this chapel nicely, and will fully support 100+ men  singing
hymns. With a dark Chessnut stained oak console with beautiful
re- ceess panels and generous propor- tions, it will fit perfectly into
the old-world craftsman- ship apparent in the details of this historic
building. We will be working with the designers in charge of the
extensive remodeling of the chapel to make this a custom installation
fitting the organ perfectly to the building. There will be a new
chamber installed high up in the rear wall to accomodate 6 of the 10
speaker cabinets, with the remaining 4 AcoustiCubes being finished to
match and mounted on top of the rear tie beam. This will insure a
very good mix of sound and even dispersion throughout the chapel.
Chancel with organ console in right trancept.
The 10 speaker cabinets will be placed in a rear chamber, with 4 AcoustiCubes above the rear-most tie beam. |
Sacred Heart Chapel
Manresa is a Jesuit retreat
house located in Convent Louisiana on the banks of the Mississippi River midway
between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. It offers three-day preached retreats, made
in silence, based on the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola.
These retreats are conducted for men only through an agreement with Cenacle
Retreat House for Women in the New Orleans area.
Some of the historic and picturesque buildings on the beautifully landscaped 130-acre campus date
from the early 19th Century, when Manresa was the site of Jefferson
College, a private school for sons of plantation owners. Between the Civil War
and the Great Depression the Marist Fathers conducted the college as a Catholic
school. The Jesuits Fathers purchased the property in 1931 as the site for a
retreat house.
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