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| Date: | 06 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Evangelist W.P. Butler with hand upraised and Rev. Joseph Washington, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church stand beside Lulu Elroy who is about to be baptized... |
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| Description: | A camel stands on the desert sands near Biskra, Algeria, as two men pause to face Mecca and pray. |
| Date: | 05 25 1958 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of first communion class of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 128 West Johnson Street. The group is near the church and includes sixtee... |
| Date: | 09 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Third annual Holy Hour at Breese Stevens Field sponsored by the Holy Hour Society of Dane County, with flag flanked altar. Soldiers are sitting in the fore... |
| Date: | 09 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Third annual Holy Hour at Breese Stevens Field sponsored by the Holy Hour Society of Dane County with flag flanked altar. Soldiers are in the foreground, k... |
| Date: | 11 08 1900 |
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| Description: | Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor, Diocese of Fund du Lac. Three Bishops seated, l to r: Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee; Bishop Grafton of F... |
| Date: | 09 09 1945 |
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| Description: | Archbishop Moses E. Kiley of Milwaukee and other clergy at the altar on Breese Stevens Field celebrating Holy Hour. Intentions of the Holy Hour for this ye... |
| Date: | 03 12 1946 |
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| Description: | Most Rev. William P. O'Connor, the first Bishop of the Madison diocese, on the steps of St. Raphael's Cathedral, after the ceremony where he was inaugurate... |
| Date: | 08 07 1950 |
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| Description: | The Most Rev. William P. O'Connor, Bishop of the Madison Catholic Diocese, is shown at the microphone as he leads prayers for peace at the annual Catholic ... |
| Date: | 01 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Members of the Catholic Holy Name Society march from the Catholic Community Center, located at 15 East Doty Street, to St. Raphael's Cathedral as part of t... |
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| Description: | View of a May Crowning ceremony at the Crucifiction Shrine, led by the Sisters of Charity, founded in Pennsylvania in 1870. Women carry a long cloth and ca... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across water towards an outdoor baptism at McBrayer's Pond. A group of adults and children are gathered at the water's edge, some of them holding para... |
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| Description: | A large group of adults and children gather around a pond where a baptism is taking place, some standing on a bridge on the right. Several people stand in ... |
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| Description: | A view of a mass held at the grotto shrine on the Salesian grounds. The priest faces the altar, which is in a grotto, and a statue of Mary stands to the ri... |
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| Description: | A view of a benediction service in the woods at Camp Malloy. Men, women, and children stand or kneel on the ground beneath trees, while a priest stands at ... |
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| Description: | A clergyman performs an outdoor church service to boys of various ages. A small stone wall flanks each side of the altar area. The altar contains flowers,... |
| Date: | 06 29 1952 |
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| Description: | Overhead shot of celebrants, procession of priests, and gathered laity at a Holy Hour of Prayer for the "peace and liberation of the prisoners of the faith... |
| Date: | 03 12 1939 |
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| Description: | Journalist Cecil Brown, who was reporting for CBS from Rome, Italy, took this picture of the crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican awaiting the coron... |
| Date: | 09 20 1953 |
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| Description: | Catholic evening worship service held outdoors at Breese Stevens Field, lit by two haloed lights and 3,000 candles. Bishop William O'Connor led the congreg... |
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