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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View of a scene of the nativity in Bethlehem at Saint Anthony's Shrine, also called 'Mount Airy,' consecrated in 1889. The scene features the Holy Family, ... |
| Date: | 10 06 1954 |
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| Description: | The Most Reverend William P. O'Connor, Catholic bishop of Madison, signs the letter in which he asks Pope Pius XII for formal permission for the Redemptori... |
| Date: | 10 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Four-year-old Tania Thousand lights a candle in front of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Green Scapula in the temporary chapel of Immaculate Heart of Mary Pa... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Way of the Cross station leading to St Anne's Shrine. Behind the shrine are birch and other trees and a view down the hill towards a valley. The station is... |
| Date: | 10 08 1945 |
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| Description: | A shinto shrine near Tokyo serves as the starting point of a Wisconsin story as Robert J. Doyle (lower left), correspondent of the Journal, takes the names... |
| Date: | 08 1904 |
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| Description: | A prayer station with a depiction of one of the stations of the cross on Holy Hill. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a group of people at Holy Hill. They are standing above a shrine. There is a large bell beside the group on the right. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Four men kneeling and praying at the shrine at Holy Hill. More people are gathered near the church above them. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Interior view at Holy Hill over pews towards a shrine. A woman sits in one of the pews on the right. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a structure that is part of the Angkor Wat Temple, located in Cambodia. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Four young boys standing, with a fifth child sitting, on the top step in front of a Japanese torii, or gate. There is a stone lantern at far right. On the ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Stone lanterns on the shore near a leaning pine tree frame a view of the Great Torii on Japan's Inland Sea. Two Japanese women in traditional kimonos are s... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austruan soldiers viewing the image of the Black Madonna in Czenstochau. |
| Date: | 06 25 1939 |
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| Description: | The Dickeyville Grotto is a small shrine made out of stone, mortar, colorful rocks and found objects. The modern door is made of glass and metal. A large s... |
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