1855
Templum sit duplex, ara sed una
Fr Grégoire got the plan accepted in 1854, and it was not easily done. On 9 August 1855 the bishop came and blessed the foundation stone of the church that stands today. One of the priests made a motto for the design, and it is the whole building in four words: “Templum sit duplex, ara sed una.” Let the temple be twofold, but the altar one — and that one altar for all. Two naves would open apart at their doors and lean toward each other down their length until they met, and where they met there would be one sanctuary and one altar, for everyone who came in at either door.
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In English
“One is the temple, and twofold, but the altar is one for all…” — with the magazine's own German verse under it: “Eins ist und zwiefach der Bau, der Altar doch für Alle nur einer.”
What this source establishes
The motto of this church, in print, in a German Catholic monthly of March 1885 — the ONLY witness to it outside the parish's own books, and thirteen years after the church was blessed. It also corrects them: where the parish transcription has the un-Latin “tribulis ingemnis”, the 1885 text reads “tribubus geminis”. And it places the inscription at the ALTAR (“Altare angebrachte”), not on the foundation stone, which nobody has ever inspected. Windowed to the distich: the page around it is the caste description of the two naves, and the extraction interleaves the magazine's donation columns.