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| Date: | 05 20 1942 |
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| Description: | Father Paul N. Flad faces the congregation during his first Mass at Blessed Sacrament Church, 2119 Rowley Avenue, with priests and altar boys kneeling in p... |
| Date: | 12 31 1941 |
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| Description: | Wedding party at the altar of Sacred Hearts Catholic Church. Party includes bride Marian Thekla Hebl, groom James Daniel Tormey, Priest George Haeusler, br... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | View of church interior looking up the aisle towards an altar decorated with garlands, possibly for a wedding. A young man stands at the left of the altar.... |
| Date: | 04 25 1954 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of a First Communion class taken in front of the altar, along with a priest, inside the St. Peter Catholic Church. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Sanctuary of Cistercian Monastery. Two men are kneeling down before the altar. Caption reads: "Sanctuary of the Cistercian Monastery, Okauchee, Wis." |
| Date: | 02 01 1947 |
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| Description: | John E. Skelton and Kathleen Hacker wedding ceremony at the altar of St. Raphael's Church, with the Rt. Reverend William Mahoney officiating, the maid of h... |
| Date: | 12 29 1947 |
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| Description: | John L. McGuire and his bride, the former Patricia A. Podjaski, leaving the altar at St. Paul's University Chapel following their wedding. Pictured at left... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Twins Marie Johanna and Friedrich Wilhelm Ginnow pose in front of a decorated altar on their confirmation day. This was the last confirmation class at the ... |
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| Description: | View up aisle toward the altar in the chapel in Immaculate Heart Academy. Six women wearing veils kneel in pews, facing the altar. Above the altar are the ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Romola (played by Lillian Gish) and Tito Melema (William Powell) standing before the altar during their wedding in a scene still for Henry King's productio... |
| Date: | 03 03 1965 |
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| Description: | The Rev. Paul Abel is standing beneath a mosaic of the Seraphic Cross of St. Francis at the new St. Francis Chapel at the University Episcopal Center, 1001... |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips standing and speaking in a costume. There is a woman on the left bowing her head. Three men are standing on the left looking to the right. In ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Interior of church, towards altar, pulpit, baptismal font, and pews. Rev. E.F. Scherbel is standing surrounded by baskets of flowers and a banner that read... |
| Date: | 06 17 1965 |
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| Description: | A man is standing and posing in front of a church altar. He is wearing traditional Lutheran vestments: a stole, crucifix, chasuble, and cassock. He is iden... |
| Date: | 11 28 1957 |
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| Description: | A man wearing an alb and chasuble is blessing a collection of canned goods on an altar. Caption reads: "Canned food collected for the St. John's Home for A... |
| Date: | 03 24 1959 |
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| Description: | Parishioners gathered in the newly built sanctuary of St. Bernard's Catholic Church on University Avenue in Middleton for a ceremony in which Bishop Willia... |
| Date: | 03 24 1959 |
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| Description: | During a ceremony to bless the altar in the newly built St. Bernard's Catholic Church on University Avenue in Middleton, Bishop William O'Conner seals a pi... |
| Date: | 03 23 1959 |
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| Description: | When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a church service held on Christmas Eve. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Handwritten on reverse: "Church of the Saints Maria-Anna." Interior of a church with an ornate altar and statues of Jesus and the Virgin Mary on the left a... |
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