Chapel

It is a story with a happy ending.Glen Burnie Korean Presbyterian Church will get its $1.2 million addition, and a historic chapel on the property will be spared the wrecker's ball.Early last year, the church in the 100 block of Third Ave. announced plans to demolish the tiny, drafty chapel and replace it with a structure nearly twice as big so members could worship and study together.The 260-member congregation had hoped the work would be completed by July to celebrate the church's 14th anniversary.

The battle lines are drawn between the feisty, mostly elderly residents of Lemko House in Fells Point and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which has ordered their popular chapel dismantled.The residents of the federally financed apartment building say God is on their side. But they are not relying solely on the deity.In their church-state fight with the government, they have won the support of Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke and U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, the Maryland Democrat who lives across the street from Lemko's front door.

Worshipers arriving for 8 a.m. Mass yesterday at the Holy Child Roman Catholic Chapel in Bethlehem were greeted by broken windows and a smashed statue of the Christ child, the work of a vandal or vandals, according to a spokesman for the Caroline County Sheriff's Department.Despite the vandalism, services were held at the white chapel with blue shutters, which was dedicated in 1962 and sits along busy Route 331.The church is more than 100 years old and originally was near its current site, said the Rev. William Patrick Mathesius, pastor for two years.

Four Western Maryland College students were charged with burglary yesterday after Westminster police found signs of forced entry at a campus chapel and discovered three men and a woman hiding in the steeple.Campus security officers called police about 3 a.m. after hearing voices and seeing a light shining through the windows of Baker Memorial Chapel, police said.Police said windows in chapel doors had been broken and pry marks were found on locks. Campus officials said the chapel had been locked by security personnel at 8: 12 p.m. Monday.

One Sunday morning 40-some years ago, my mother packed me up, hailed a cab and told the driver to be off to Notre Dame on Charles Street. Our destination was the school she attended, one address, for an incredible 16 years: first-grade, 1923, through her college graduation day, 1939. When I asked about her time there, she said, without hesitation, those were the happiest days of her life. That Sunday, we were probably running a little late. She rushed me through the school's marvelous, if intimidating, Victorian corridors, past the biggest radiators I had ever seen.

It took 30 gallons of paint, all their study periods and many lunch hours for the past semester, but nine seniors at Archbishop Spalding Senior High School in Severn are ready to put the final touches on a mural in their school chapel.The 25-by-40-foot mural will be dedicated at a ceremony Friday morning, says the Rev. Andrew Mohl, the school chaplain."It's supposed to be along the lines of Creation, with the wateand the land and the sky," says Evan Gilligan, 17, a senior from Pasadena who coordinated the mural work.

ELKTON SANDY TAYLOR didn't bother to gather things old, new and blue for her wedding yesterday to Jamie Armstrong.The something borrowed, however, came naturally: Time.Taylor, 22, and Armstrong, 30, both of Carlisle, Pa., were married shortly after noon Thursday in the Little Wedding Chapel in Elkton -- just hours before Armstrong was to report to his Army Reserve unit in York, Pa.Armstrong's original orders were to report at 8 a.m. Thursday to the 254th Supply Company, but he asked for time to get married first.

ELKTON -- For Jack and Billie Taylor, matrimony proved yesterday to be better the second time around.It was Jack Taylor and Billie Olkowski who came to Elkton last Valentine's Day to take their vows in the quaint Little Chapel, where thousands of couples -- including a few big names -- have entered into matrimonial bliss since the 1920s.But when they pulled onto Main Street, they saw something that made their hearts sink.The chapel was still smoldering from an early morning fire, sending the Taylors and several other couples across the street for a decidedly less romantic wedding in the courthouse.

When his wife was diagnosed as having breast cancer, Fernand Tersiguel made a pact with God: Lord, if you cure my wife, I'll build a chapel where we can pray every day.That was May last year. Two months later, after his wife, Odette, had undergone a mastectomy, her doctor said that she needed no follow-up treatment and that her prognosis was excellent.Today, if you follow the stone path into the woods behind the Tersiguels' house in western Baltimore County, a stunning sight greets you: a gorgeous chapel, reaching three stories toward God.Mr.