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Holy Name Seminary

Date: 05 27 1965
Description: The seminarians at Holy Name Seminary learn that the dignity of manual labor is an important lesson for aspirants to the priesthood. Here Tom Colt, Madison...
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Holy Name Seminary

Date: 05 27 1965
Description: At Holy Name Seminary students are dining at round tables. Sitting with his back to the camera is Tim Terrill, Janesville. Going clockwise around the table...
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Edgewood College Commencement Ceremony

Date: 06 03 1965
Description: Bishop Jerome B. Hastrich and graduates of Edgewood College Commencement, Class of 1965.
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Latin American Mission Program Board Officers

Date: 12 16 1965
Description: Group portrait of the Madison Catholic diocese-sponsored Latin American Mission Program board officers. Left to right are: Mrs. John Schwirlan, executive s...
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Latin American Mission Program with Bishop Hastrich

Date: 12 16 1965
Description: Portrait of Auxiliary Bishop Jerome Hastrich, director of the Latin American Mission Program, taken after his return from the Ecumenical Council in Rome, I...
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Traveling from Ashton

Date: 11 2013
Description: Statue of Saint Peter the fisherman in a churchyard. Saint Peter is looking up toward the sky, and holding a net of fish in both hands.
Book or Pamphlet

Baptism of Nakam

Date: 1855
Description: Illustration of Father Florimond Bonduel baptizing a Menominee woman named Nakam by pouring water from a clam shell onto her head. The woman is kneeling at...
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Very Rev. J.J. Fox

Date: 1900
Description: Quarter-length profile portrait of J.J. Fox, Bishop of the Green Bay diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. Bishop Fox was an active member of the Wisconsin...
Poster

Le Cardinal Mercier Protège la Belgique

Date: 1916
Description: Poster depicting Cardinal Mercier carrying a staff surrounded by suffering people. Text reads: "Le Cardinal Mercier Protège la Belgique." A stamp on the p...
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Refugees Receiving Meals

Date: 1914
Description: Refugees receiving a midday meal at a Dutch church.
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Missionary Association of Catholic Women Convention

Date: 10 13 1959
Description: Two men in clerical collars (and one wearing a biretta, cross, cassock, and cincture) examining a monstrance held by a woman. Several clerical vestments ar...
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Brother Norbert Karpfinger

Date: 06 08 1989
Description: A man is smiling and leaning against a school desk. Caption reads: "Brother Norbert Karpfinger will be leaving Milwaukee."
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Veterans Memorial Mound, Holy Sepulcher Cemetery

Date: 10 16 1962
Description: View towards a group of people standing in a cemetery around an altar and a flagpole with an American flag. A clergyman in an alb and chasuble standing in ...
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Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church Dedication

Date: 08 14 1955
Description: Blessing ceremony at the new Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church located at 401 South Owen Drive. Standing at the opened front doors of the church are ...
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Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church Dedication

Date: 08 14 1955
Description: Elevated view of the dedication ceremony and first Mass held at the Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church located at 401 South Owen Drive. Madison Dioces...
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Dedication of Sisters of St. Benedict Mother-House

Date: 1955
Description: Catholic Bishop William P. O'Connor blessing the chapel at the new mother-house for the Sisters of St. Benedict located on County Highway M near Fox Bluff.
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Dedication of Sisters of St. Benedict Mother-House

Date: 1955
Description: A group of Benedictine nuns singing as the choir at the solemn high Mass of Thanksgiving in their small chapel at their new mother-house located on County ...
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Mass in Skutari

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Description: The celebration of the first mass for our troops in the cathedral in the Catholic section of Skutari. Albanian Catholics are leaving the church after mass,...
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Mass in Skutari

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Description: The celebration of the first mass for our troops in the cathedral in the Catholic section of Skutari. The Archbishop of Skutari, who celebrated the mass, i...
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Knights of Columbus and Madison Shrine Club Luncheon

Date: 04 12 1957
Description: Edward J. Owens (right) former grand knight of Madison's Knights of Columbus, is sitting with Industrial psychologist Dr. Paul Mundie of Milwaukee, the gue...

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