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| Date: | 08 15 1960 |
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| Description: | Mother Monica, superior of the convent and academy, turns over the first spadeful of ground during the groundbreaking ceremonies for a new motherhouse conv... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Interior elevated view of St. Francis Xavier Church looking towards the altar. Note the American and religious flags and bunting decorating the pillars and... |
| Date: | 06 18 1961 |
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| Description: | Madison Diocese Bishop William P. O'Connor dedicates the new St. Maria Goretti Parish Center building. The parish center building, the first phase of a par... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard view looking up a unpaved road and sidewalk at McDonell Memorial High School and Notre Dame church with the nuns' convent in the back... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View from street of the brick church building. Printed on back: "St. Anthony Abbot Church, Cumberland, Wisconsin, Located South Edge of Town, Masses 7:30 A... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Dickeyville Grotto. Caption reads: "Inside of Grotto at Dickeyville, Wis." The following description is printed on the back of the pos... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the grounds of the Dickeyville Grotto. The sculpture, which was created by Father Matthias Wernerus in 1929-30, and honors Co... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Catholic Church with a spire and stairways in front, on a narrow street. Trees and power poles line the street. Caption reads: "Catholic Church, Eagle, Wis... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of St. Bede's Priory and High School, including the surrounding country landscape. There is a highway behind the buildings. The Priory is the M... |
| Date: | 03 24 1961 |
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| Description: | Standing in the vestibule of Edgewood College's new classroom and administration building called De Ricci Hall is the five-member committee who are plannin... |
| Date: | 04 28 1961 |
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| Description: | Reverend Wilfred J. Schuster looks over the interior of the new chapel sanctuary at the St. Maria Goretti Parish Center at Gilbert Road and Flad Avenue on ... |
| Date: | 04 28 1961 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the new St. Maria Goretti Parish Center at Gilbert Road and Flad Avenue on Madison's southwest side. |
| Date: | 09 12 1961 |
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| Description: | First graders in class at Blessed Sacrament School listen attentively as Sister Dominic Savio, O.P. reads them a story. |
| Date: | 09 12 1961 |
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| Description: | Third graders read in Blessed Sacrament school library. Left to right: Mary Jo Sweeney, Kathy Gorman and Bill Morgan. |
| Date: | 09 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Three Catholic clerics bless the exterior of the new St. Joseph's parish building at 1905 W. Beltline Highway. Bishop William O'Connor, wears robes and a m... |
| Date: | 11 20 1961 |
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| Description: | Mrs. C.J. (Kath) Key, 423 North Carroll Street, left, and Mrs. Olive, MacKay, 2115 Madison Street, hand-crafted Christmas trees at the Harvest Festival at ... |
| Date: | 12 21 1961 |
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| Description: | The Christmas Nativity Scene at St. Patrick's Catholic Church at East Main and Hancock Streets. |
| Date: | 05 02 1963 |
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| Description: | Street view of the newly finished Park Motor Inn on Madison's Capitol Square. The steeple of St. Raphaell's Cathedral is on the left. |
| Date: | 11 05 1963 |
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| Description: | A bulldozer demolishing St. Joseph's Catholic Church at 10 South Park Street as part of the Triangle area urban renewal project. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | This map shows the location of Catholic churches, missions, and shrines. The map is color coded and includes a key in the bottom left corner. The back of t... |
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