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Cathedral of St. John the Divine

Cathedral of St. John the Divine

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Search complete. 14 mentions across 9 episodes found for "Cathedral of St. John the Divine".

Sep 11, 2026

Juan NaulaNARRATOR
57:31
Inundated with letters of condolence from major scientific and political figures all over the world, such as Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the US president, the Vice President Henry Wallace, and a host of Nobel laureates.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
57:45
Tesla's funeral took place at St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York City on the 12th of January, where it was attended by over 2,000 people and presided over by members of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
57:59
Afterwards, Nikola Tesla, who by the end of his life boasted over 700 patents to his name, was cremated, and his ashes were placed inside a golden sphere, which is still exhibited at the Tesla Museum in Belgrade.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
58:16
Following his death, the US government were curious as to whether among Tesla's surviving notes there could be information to help them in the war effort, and so they investigated his documents but found nothing of profound importance.
Bethany Ann PutnamGUEST
24:53
I was busy, busy, busy.
Bethany Ann PutnamGUEST
24:54
And one of the meetings that I took while I was there was with the woman who ran the men's shelter at St. John the divine.
Bethany Ann PutnamGUEST
25:04
And, um, said, I'd just like to come and meet you and talk to you about what you're doing and what I'm doing.
Bethany Ann PutnamGUEST
25:09
And she was part of a group of churches in the northern part of Manhattan.

28 MINS LATER

Bethany Ann PutnamGUEST
53:06
They had to be.
Bethany Ann PutnamGUEST
53:07
So I would gather all that stuff.
Bethany Ann PutnamGUEST
53:11
And then I called Raquel, who's the girl that I had met at St. John the Divine one day and said, hey, it's Bethany Putnam.
Bethany Ann PutnamGUEST
53:18
And I'm here working at, you know, St. Paul's Chapel.
Chuffy GaleazziNARRATOR
57:43
Then, calmly, she drank in the view of New York at night as lights turned on against the enveloping darkness.
Chuffy GaleazziNARRATOR
57:51
To the left, on Amsterdam Avenue, was an angel perched against the sky on the highest point of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Chuffy GaleazziNARRATOR
58:00
Trumpet raised, the angel sounded a flourish of unheard celestial music to unhearing earthly ears below.
Chuffy GaleazziNARRATOR
58:09
To the right, Broadway stretched downtown into the night as far as she could see.
Greg CarrHOST
26:47
And the funeral was in New York.
Greg CarrHOST
26:49
I think it was at St. John's Divine.
Greg CarrHOST
26:51
In fact, I'm pretty almost I'm almost sure it was.
Greg CarrHOST
26:55
And of course, everybody was there.
Christina StantonGUEST
41:30
We go into that church.
Christina StantonGUEST
41:31
And Monty, the best thing about this church, kind of reminds me a little bit of St. John the Divine, is their murals.
Christina StantonGUEST
41:38
So St. John has murals too.
Christina StantonGUEST
41:41
Look at this.
Lindsay HansonGUEST
30:06
While I'm in New York, though, there are a couple churches that I really want to connect with.
Lindsay HansonGUEST
30:11
And one of them is Trinity Wall Street and then St. John the Divine.
Lindsay HansonGUEST
30:15
I would love to collaborate with them.
Lindsay HansonGUEST
30:17
And so I'm going to be reaching out to them soon and inviting them to the show, trying to make that connection happen.
My Lunch Break

My Lunch Break

No Blueprints

Aug 28 · 1 Mention

speaker_3HOST
24:34
It's an incredible gift to have.
speaker_3HOST
24:35
Now staying in New York, we have the St. John the Divine Cathedral, where it of course has a large fire that damaged part of the cathedral.
speaker_3HOST
24:44
There's no public evidence of a complete original set of engineering or mechanical blueprints yet again.
speaker_3HOST
24:52
This is unbelievable.
Christopher MyersGUEST
9:31
Um, there's the Guggenheim.
Christopher MyersGUEST
9:33
There's St. John the Divine.
Christopher MyersGUEST
9:35
There's Central Park.
Christopher MyersGUEST
9:37
There's Times Square, even.
NancyHOST
100:59
When it comes to architecture in the United States, we've got it all.
NancyHOST
101:03
From Gothic revival masterpieces such as New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, to the modernistic glass and steel structures of Chicago, to the futuristic curvilinear buildings that shape Southern California.
NancyHOST
101:20
Some edifices are awe-inspiring.
NancyHOST
101:22
Others arouse indignation, such as the skill of melding the art of form with the science of function.

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