The Painted Church
CITY: Honaunau
STATE: HI
COUNTRY: USA
POSTCODE: 96704
PHONE 1: 808/328-2227
Oh, those Belgian priests -- what a talented lot. In the late 1800s, Father John Berchman Velghe borrowed a page from Michelangelo and painted biblical scenes inside St. Benedict's Catholic Church so the illiterate Hawaiians could visualize the white man's version of creation.
Copyright: Excerpted from
Frommer's Hawaii 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

Honaunau
, USA