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| Date: | 07 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Guest lounge, St. Benedict's Convent, Fox Bluff, 4200 County Highway M. |
| 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: | 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: | 05 27 1965 |
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| Description: | Abstract art decorating the tabernacle at the new Holy Name Seminary. |
| Date: | 05 27 1965 |
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| Description: | John Stanton, Princeton, is shown studying in his semi-enclosed private room. A partition divides his quarters from the cubicle at right. |
| Date: | 05 27 1965 |
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| Description: | Seminarians at Holy Name Seminary give each other haircuts at the facility's barber shop. Gordon Hellenbrand, Cross Plains, is giving a haircut to Steve Me... |
| Date: | 05 27 1965 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 27 1965 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 13 1965 |
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| Description: | Three monks from the Protestant Church, French Community of Taize, France are spending one year in the University of Wisconsin community praying with group... |
| Date: | 03 1989 |
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| Description: | His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, in the original Kalachakra temple at the Deer Park Buddhist Center giving a talk to a group of University of Wisconsin Chin... |
| Date: | 06 08 1989 |
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| Description: | A man is smiling and leaning against a school desk. Caption reads: "Brother Norbert Karpfinger will be leaving Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 01 06 1961 |
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| Description: | During a High Mass at the Academy of St. Benedict, Novice Sisters Mary Christine, left, and Mary David in white veils profess their temporary vows in the o... |
| Date: | 01 06 1961 |
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| Description: | During a High Mass at the Academy of St. Benedict, black veils are placed on the heads of Novice Sisters Mary Christine, left, and Mary David as part of a ... |
| Date: | 01 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Posing for a photograph following a High Mass in the chapel of the Academy of St. Benedict during which they professed their temporary vows in the order of... |
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