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Details: Two nuns in their habits stand in front of a brick wall. Across the street behind them is the Paramount Theatre and a Cabaret advertising a movie starring Virginia Dare. The photographer titled this image, "Ideals Persist-Backdrops Change." 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download 6943910843_3fd8250e6c_...
Details: The Feast of Corpus Christi procession to the church. According to Will Plazewski, the photo was taken between 1892, when the two-story wooden school (behind the trees) was built, and 1910, when construction began on the current church. From the extensive Florida postcard collection of Fr. Henry Riffle. 🙏🏽This...
Details: Men of the 38th Bomb Group attend a Catholic mass held on Christmas Day, 1942, in New Guinea. The 38th Bomb Group was one of the most heroic air groups in the Pacific war, but probably the least well known. A critical component to victory in Japan, the 38th...
Details: The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark, commonly known as St Mark's Basilica, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Patriarchate of Venice; it became the episcopal seat of the Patriarch of Venice in 1807, replacing the earlier cathedral of San Pietro di Castello. It is dedicated to...
Details: Father Edward J. Waters, a Catholic Chaplain from Oswego, N.Y., conducts divine services on pier for members of the first assault troops thrown against Hitler's forces on the continent. Weymouth, England, June, 1944. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download 49622614801_0be1002b2d_o.jpeg 1 MB...
Details: Santa Maria della Salute (English: Saint Mary of Health), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of Venice, Italy. This is part of a travel album with photos and drawings...
Details: This is a portrait of a cleric with a cross around the neck, cassock, pelerine and wide sash. It is part of a photo album with 26 cartes-de-visite of Roman Catholic clergy from the late 19th century. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download RP-F-F00790-P.jpeg 1...
0:00/0:551Ă—Details: Anthony Fenoughty and his wife, Catherine McAndrews, emigrated from County Mayo, Ireland, in 1817 They came to Kansas in 1868 and to Paola in 1870. There were four children in this family, all having lived to be over eighty years of age in Kansas. One...
Cardinal robert dunne Brave Search0:00/0:171×Details: Robert Dunne (5 September 1830 – 13 January 1917) was the second Roman Catholic bishop of Brisbane and later he became its first archbishop. Dunne was born in Ardfinnan, County Tipperary, Ireland and was educated at Lismore Grammar School and the Irish...
Details: A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to religious service, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent. The term is often used interchangeably with religious sisters who do take simple vows but live an active...
Details St Paul's Cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Birmingham, located at 2120 Third Avenue North, on the northwest corner of its intersection with 22nd Street North in downtown Birmingham. The present Victorian Gothic brick building was dedicated on November 30, 1893. The first Catholic church...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In this photo there are two women wearing either shawls or nun's habits. It is unclear if these are laywomen or nuns. The woman in the foreground is kneeling and holding rosary beads. This seems to...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Sister Maria Quinones of the Order of the Sacred Heart. Â A native of Puerto Rico, she was traveling in 1919 from New York City to Havana Cuba to teach at the University of Havana. Source [https:...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saints Cyril and Methodius Ukrainian Catholic Church, 14 Rolls Avenue, St. Catharines, Ontario. The church was designed in the Byzantine style, including copper domes. Services were originally held in the basement of the Cathedral of St....
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches and in some historical cases referred to as Uniates, are twenty-three Eastern Christian sui...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Coptic monasticism is said to be the original form of monasticism as St. Anthony of Egypt became the first one to be called "monk" (Gr: μοναχός) and he was the first to establish a Christian monastery...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II, addressed relations between the Catholic Church and the modern world. The Council, through the Holy See, was formally opened...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A young Marine finds a moment of quiet and solitude in which to offer up a prayer for the safety of himself and his comrades. Minutes later, the 1st Marine Division launched an offensive against entrenched...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Worshippers at Holy Angel Catholic Church on Chicago’s south side. It was the city’s largest black Catholic Church at the time (1973). The pastor was Father George H. Clements, who was a leader in...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A grotto is a natural or artificial cave used by humans in both modern times and antiquity, and historically or prehistorically. Naturally occurring grottoes are often small caves near water that are usually flooded or liable...
A religious sister in the Catholic Church is a woman who has taken public vows in a religious institute dedicated to apostolic works, as distinguished from a nun who lives a cloistered monastic life dedicated to prayer. Both nuns and sisters use the term "sister" as a form of address....
The Passionists, formally known as the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ (Latin: Congregatio Passionis Iesu Christi, C.P.), are a Catholic religious order of Pontifical Right founded by Saint Paul of the Cross with a special emphasis on and devotion to the Passion of Jesus Christ. Professed members...
This is a photo of Pope Pius XII in papal regalia including the triregnum, falda and the mantum, while being carried on the sedia gestatoria and flanked by the flabellum The triregnum is a headgear with three crowns or levels, also called the triple tiara or triple crown. Paul VI...
Pope Pius XI, born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was head of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to his death in 1939. He was the first sovereign of Vatican City from its creation as an independent state on 11 February 1929. Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_...
