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| Description: | View of the grotto at the Putnam Catholic Academy. Flowers surround the grotto with a statue and an altar inside. |
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| Description: | View of a grotto at the Convent of Our Lady of the Cenacle. A statue of a religious man stands atop a base of rocks. |
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| Description: | A statue of the Madonna stands in a niche of the grotto at the Convent of Our Lady of the Cenacle. |
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| Description: | View of a grotto at the College of the Sacred Heart, founded in 1841. A Madonna statue stands in a niche in the grotto, and kneelers can be seen before the... |
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| Description: | Front view of a stone grotto at Saint Louis Academy, founded in 1818. Two kneelers stand before an altar, and a statue can be seen to the right. Atop the g... |
| 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, ... |
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| Description: | View of the Holy Grotto on the Convent Grounds of the Sisters of Mercy. The grotto is composed of leftover brick and the chimney of the 1857 church buildin... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of the Scourged Christ, St. Francis Monastery and College. The statue is behind bars, in front of a stone wall. On the right is a staine... |
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| Description: | Ruins of a Mormon cabin built of squared logs. A harbor is visible in the background. |
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| Description: | Interior of a Masonic Lodge, Black River Falls, No. 74, A.R.&M., decorated by C.W. Reiels. The lodge occupied the third floor of the center Main Street blo... |
| 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: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of worshipers at a shrine featuring a Madonna. |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A black and white photographic postcard view of the front of the Dickeyville Grotto. In the top left corner of the postcard is a small oval portrait of Fat... |
| 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: | 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. |
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