MADONNA
  Madonna of the Sacred Coat

The two side altar paintings and the stations of the cross are the work of Charles Bosseron Chambers. His "Madonna of the Sacred Coat" which hangs above the north altar depicts the young Virgin Mother holding the famous seamless tunic of Treves.

The Interior of St. Ignatius Church
"Architect Henry J. Schlacks drew heavily on Jesuit tradition in designing the church. He patterned the imposing edifice after the Church of the Gesu in Rome, which had been designed by the great artist Michaelangelo who incidentally had been a friend of Ignatius Loyola."

"The interior . The window of the south transept depicts the Holy Family, a permanent memorial of St. Ignatius to its mother parish. St. Ignatius himself is honored in a series of ten oil paintings, showing crucial events in his life, which were affixed to the barrel-vaulted ceiling above the stained glass windows. The artist was Augustine Pall, a Chicagoan, whose work at St. Ignatius was characterized by a contemporary Chicago newspaper as '. . . the most important mural decorations executed in this city in the twentieth century.'"

The above photograph gives some idea of the beauty and artistry contained in St. Ignatius church. From the observer's view the works of C. Bosseron Chambers are clearly located. On the right-hand side in the marble frame is "St. Joseph and the Light of the World." On the left in Mary's altar is the "Madonna of the Sacred Coat."