The photo is of the west portal of National Cathedral (Episcopal Diocese of Washington), Washington, DC. It has nine empty niches for statues of saints, typically of martyrs. The tympanum traditionally would show Judgment Day, but the architects chose to represent Creation instead.
The location marked is the spot where the mother was murdered in Minneapolis.
There are nine empty nicheson DC’s Gothic cathedral.Let us pray, hold onto wishesthey won’t be filled by further evil.Eight martyrs more — still unnamed saints —to join a good mother in her carwho turned a wheel, to flee, not feint,three icy bullets, au revoir.Should it come to pass — God forbid —that more be carved to stand with her,then shall that evil be unhidwhen we look up at statues there.
