San Diego Reader

• Place of Worship

St. Ephrem Catholic Church

• 750 Medford Street, El Cajon, CA 92020 | Directions

The circular interior of St. Ephrem’s church might serve as an eclectic museum of Catholic devotional art. So many styles, drawn from so many traditions: a golden mosaic rendering of the icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help; sweetly pious etchings of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus; brightly painted plaster statues of St. Francis, St. Therese, and St. Joseph. Marble-relief Stations of the Cross that would be right at home in a Gothic cathedral. A modern-day icon of the Cure of Ars — a Western saint portrayed in an Eastern style. [+more]