Text transcribed from caption: C-29890 SACRAMENTS ADMINISTERED TO QUINTUPLET ABERDEEN, S.D. -- A quintuplet is baptized and confirmed on the day of his birth. James Andrew Fischer, only boy of the five children born to Mrs. Andrew Fischer, is blessed by Bishop Lambert A. Hoch of Sioux Falls, S.D., as he lays in his isolette at St. Luke’s hospital in Aberdeen, S.D. His four sisters also received the Sacraments from the prelate, who exercised a privilege to administer Confirmation to the very young. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-9C-63-W)

Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)

1963
September 14, 1963

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 8 x 6 1/4 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Fischer, James Andrew.
Hoch, Lambert A.
Catholic Church--Bishops.
St. Luke’s Hospital (Aberdeen, S.D.)

Bishops--South Dakota--Aberdeen.
Multiple birth--South Dakota--Aberdeen.
Quintuplets--South Dakota--Aberdeen.
Sacraments--Catholic Church.
Baptism--Catholic Church.
Confirmation--Catholic Church.
Baptism--South Dakota--Aberdeen.
Confirmation--South Dakota--Aberdeen.

South Dakota
Aberdeen.
Aberdeen (S.D.)
North and Central America--United States--South Dakota--Brown--Aberdeen

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, image no. C-29890; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_C-29890

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