Text transcribed from caption: PC-32106 NUNS, PRIEST PRAY FOR CHURCHILL OXFORDSHIRE, England -- Two unidentified nuns and a priest pray for Sir Winston Churchill as a grave is dug for the famed British Prime Minister who died at the age of 90. Sir Winston was to be buried in the Anglican churchyard at Bladon, near Blenheim Palace, the ancestral castle where he was born. The burial was to follow a state funeral and services at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-1D-65-NAB)

Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)

1965
January 28, 1965

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 5 x 8 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965--Death and burial.

Burial--England--Bladon.
Cemeteries--England--Bladon.
Grave digging--England--Bladon.
Nuns--England--Bladon.
Clergy--England--Bladon.
Prayer--England--Bladon.

England
Bladon.
Bladon (England)
Europe--England--Oxfordshire--Bladon

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, image no. PC-32106; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_PC-32106

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