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| Date: | 12 12 1952 |
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| Description: | St. Bernard's Catholic School Christmas pageant, showing choir, angels, Mary, Joseph and Infant, with audience in foreground. |
| Date: | 05 28 1956 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of St. Mary's of Pine Bluff Catholic school graduation class, twelve girls and four boys with Father Young. |
| Date: | 03 29 1953 |
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| Description: | A quartet of horn players, first row David Lewis and William Howard, back row Robert Reuter and Jim Christensen, play for Easter services at Luther Memoria... |
| Date: | 02 15 1953 |
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| Description: | Historic evening mass at St. Raphael Cathedral, a stately two-hour ceremony closing the parish's annual 40 Hours' Devotion. This was the first evening mass... |
| Date: | 11 11 1950 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a procession being led out of St. Raphael's Cathedral by Bishop William P. O'Connor in honor of the Madison Knights of Columbus 5... |
| Date: | 02 11 1951 |
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| Description: | Five Catholic boy scouts from two Janesville parishes receiving the Ad Altare Dei Medal from Bishop William P. O'Connor of the Madison diocese in St. Rapha... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two Trappist monks pray at the Stations of the Cross hanging on a hallway wall in the abbey of Our Lady of the Valley. A statue of the Madonna and Child is... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A Trappist monk in black robes stands in front of an arched doorway at the abbey of Our Lady of the Valley. The stone columns around him have floral capita... |
| Date: | 07 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Participating in the groundbreaking ceremonies for a new elementary school building on the Edgewood campus are left to right, foreground: Mother Evelyn Mot... |
| Date: | 06 28 1953 |
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| Description: | Samuel Cardinal Stritch of Chicago blessing the new chapel at Saint Coletta school for exceptional children in Jefferson. |
| Date: | 06 28 1953 |
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| Description: | The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Feider placing a missal on the candlelighted altar at the new chapel at St. Coletta school for exceptional children in Jefferson. |
| Date: | 09 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Martin Baaken, Dennis Meronek, and Paul Brantmeyer remove pews from one section of St. Raphael Cathedral as a historic remodeling project gets under way at... |
| Date: | 09 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Carpenters install a four-story wall to close off the front of the St. Raphael's sanctuary during the remodeling project that will rebuild the sanctuary an... |
| Date: | 05 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Jacqueline Porter is wearing a long veil and is standing atop a step stool while placing a flower crown on the head of a St. Mary statue inside an unnamed ... |
| Date: | 08 01 1954 |
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| Description: | The Most Revered William P. O'Conner, bishop of the Madison Catholic diocese, enters the new St Mary of the Lake church in Westport for a dedication ceremo... |
| Date: | 12 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of twenty men who volunteered their time to help remodel a home at 1129 Mound Street into a new convent for the nuns of St. James' Parish. |
| Date: | 06 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Three women who will preside at serving tables for the open house of Bishop William P. O'Connor's residence are looking over the pleasant gardens behind th... |
| Date: | 11 30 1957 |
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| Description: | Vern Woodward (left), U.W. Madison's assistant boxing coach and director of the Little Badgers program, talking to one of his classes of more than 25 littl... |
| Date: | 06 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Rev. Louis Scheuring, pastor of St. James' Catholic Church, breaking ground for the new school after blessing the ground. Five altar boys assist Fr. Scheur... |
| Date: | 08 29 1959 |
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| Description: | A group gathering for the ground breaking ceremonies for the St. Thomas Aquinas parish auditorium. Rev. Arnold Lehman, pastor, shown with shovel; sacristan... |
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