Designed by Chicago architect Adolphus Druiding, the Victorian Gothic-style brick building was completed as a parish church in 1893.

There is the aspiration of relocating his remains from Elmwood Cemetery to the cathedral as the cause for his beatification as a martyr advances.

Just prior to its completion, Lawrence Scully was killed when his horse-drawn carriage was spooked by a passing motor vehicle that honked its horn.

[2] The stained-glass windows in the cathedral's aisles are the work of G. C. Riordan & Company of Cincinnati.

[7] In 2022, the cathedral dedicated a new pipe organ in the choir gallery in front of the St. Paul window.

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