Who are the six men on either side of the main entrance to the chapel? If one of them is indeed Gen. Robert Lee, isn’t that a bit sacreligious?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: One of the men is indeed the South’s most revered general, who, while not a religious figure as such, brought a host of other admirable qualities and accomplishments to the table. On his side of the entranceway are two other honored southerners, poet Sydney Lanier and Thomas Jefferson. The gentlemen on the left are Dominican friar Girolamo Savanorola, John Wycliffe and Martin Luther. Up above them you may have missed the seventh figure, John Wesley. The placement at the entrance, and outside the church internal, by the way, does not imply religious reverence, but respect and honor.