Religious News Service Photographs

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Text transcribed from caption: PF-26262 MINISTERS, RELIGION PROFESSORS JAILED AS FREEDOM RIDERS MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- These “Freedom Riders” were smiling as they arrived here by bus, but all were arrested the next day as they sought service at a segregated bus terminal lunch counter before their scheduled departure for Jackson, Miss. From left are Dr. John Maguire and Dr. David Swift, religion professors at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.; George B. Smith (head partially visible), Negro law student at Yale University; Dr. William S. Coffin, Jr., Yale chaplain and head of the group; the Rev. Gaylor [Gaylord] Noyce, associate professor of the Yale Divinity School; Clyde Carter and Charles Jones, Negro theological students at Johnston C. Smith University, Charlotte, N.C. Others arrested at the “white only” counter were four Negro integration leaders, the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, pastor of First Baptist church here; the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth of Birmingham; the Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, an executive of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Bernard S. Lee, one of nine students expelled from Alabama State College last year for trying to stage a sit-in demonstration. Another Negro leader, the Rev. Solomon S. Seay, executive secretary of the Montgomery Improvement Association, was short in the wrist the same day, reportedly by a white man in a passing car. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-5D-61-DP)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Maguire, John David., Swift, David Everett, 1914-, Smith, George Bundy., Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006., Noyce, Gaylord B., Carter, Clyde Larocque., Jones, Charles, 1937-2019.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Freedom Rides, 1961., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery., Clergy--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Seminarians--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Montgomery (Ala.)
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https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358357
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Text transcribed from caption: Suggested for use in connection with Brotherhood Week, Feb. 20-27 PC-49290 SIGNS OF THE PAST Like the Birmingham, Alabama, store they are located on, “colored” and “white” entrances have been abandoned in this country. But signs of the recent past such as these still remain to remind Americans that there is a long way to go towards achieving mutual respect. Brotherhood Week, a program of the National Conference of Christians and Jews in cooperation with schools, churches and synagogues, civic, service and community organizations, serves to remind us that “Brotherhood Begins with Respect.” Brotherhood Week will be observed for the 44th time from Feb. 20-27. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by Vernon Sigl (VS-NY-2A-77-DS)
Creator:
Sigl, Vernon. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., National Conference of Christians and Jews.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Segregation--United States., Signs and signboards--Alabama--Birmingham., Brotherhood Week--United States., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Birmingham (Ala.)
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https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358356
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45752 TEARS IN ATLANTA ATLANTA -- Members cry outside a church where the mother of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was slain by a gunman in Atlanta. One other person was killed in the fusillade of bullets unleashed by a black man regarded by authorities as insane. The famed civil rights leader’s mother was slain as she played the organ in the church in which her son and her husband had served as pastors. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (L-7A-74-JW)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Alberta Williams, 1904-1974--Death and burial., Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.), King, Alberta Williams, 1904-1974--Assassination.
Topics:
Spouses of clergy--Georgia--Atlanta., Families of clergy--Georgia--Atlanta., Church shootings--Georgia--Atlanta., Assassination--Georgia--Atlanta., Bereavement--Georgia--Atlanta.
Geographic subjects:
Atlanta (Ga.)
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https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358355
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-41279 ARRESTED AT A&P OFFICES NEW YORK -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson, national director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Operation Breadbasket, gives a clenched fist salute from a police van after he and 11 other clergymen were arrested in the building housing the national offices of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. Operation Breadbasket is conducting a national campaign against the food chain, which they claim discriminates in the hiring of blacks. A&P denies the charges. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-2A-71-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Jackson, Jesse, 1941-, Southern Christian Leadership Conference., Operation Breadbasket (U.S.), Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--New York (State)--New York., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Clergy--New York (State)--New York., African American clergy--New York (State)--New York., Discrimination in employment., Police--New York (State)--New York., Arrest--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., New York (N.Y.)
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https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358354
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-40037 WHITES ATTACK SCHOOL BUSES LAMAR, S.C. -- South Carolina highway patrolmen walk past an overturned and damaged school bus after a mob of angry whites, armed with ax handles and baseball bats, attacked buses bringing Negro children to the once-white Lamar High School. Police had to use tear gas to drive the mob away but three buses were damaged. Several Negro children sustained injuries from flying glass or tear gas. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-3A-70-DS)
Creator:
West, Luke. (photographer), United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., School integration--South Carolina--Lamar., Busing for school integration--South Carolina--Lamar., School buses--South Carolina--Lamar., Racism--South Carolina--Lamar., Police--South Carolina--Lamar., African American children--Violence against--South Carolina--Lamar.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Lamar (S.C.)
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https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358353
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-39919 INTEGRATION IN MISSISSIPPI WEST POINT, Miss. -- A white girl waits with Negro students as the formerly all-black Southside Elementary School in West Point, Miss., for the doors to open for second semester registration. Registration proceeded without incident. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-JKS-2A-70-DS)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., School integration--Mississippi--West Point., Children--Mississippi--West Point., School children--Mississippi--West Point.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., West Point (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358352
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Text transcribed from caption: PC 39354 TRIES TO CALM CROWD CHICAGO -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was among five persons arrested in a rock-throwing confrontation between blacks and police on the University of Illinois Circle Campus in Chicago, uses a police microphone in an attempt to quiet demonstrators. Mr. Jackson and four others were arrested when they refused to lead a group of about 600 demonstrators away from a construction site on the campus. They had gone their to press their demands for jobs for blacks at Chicago construction sites. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-9B-69-FPC)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Jackson, Jesse, 1941-, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago., Clergy--Illinois--Chicago., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Baptists., African American clergy--Illinois--Chicago., Discrimination in employment--Illinois--Chicago., Police--Illinois--Chicago., Arrest--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358351
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-34662 CHICAGO MARCH LEADERS CHICAGO -- Leaders of the civil rights marches protesting housing discrimination in Chicago discuss future strategy with their followers. Albert Raby, heading the effort, announces that plans to march in suburban Cicero have been postponed. With him are other Southern Christian Leadership Conference officials -- the Rev. James Bevel (left) and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-8C-66-NBM)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Raby, Al, 1933-1988., Jackson, Jesse, 1941-, Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008., Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago., Civil rights workers--Illinois--Chicago., Discrimination in housing--Illinois--Chicago., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Clergy--Illinois--Chicago., African American clergy--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358347
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-34652 AMERICAN NAZIS ACTIVE IN CHICAGO RIOT CHICAGO -- Roving bands of angry whites carried signs distributed by members of the American Nazi Party in continuing protests against civil rights marches in Chicago. About 2,000 white people, largely teenagers, gathered in the southwest Chicago area as three civil rights marches took place in other neighborhoods. Several of the whites, who had been throwing rocks, bottles and firecrackers at Negro motorists, were arrested in clashes with police. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-NY-8C-66-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., American Nazi Party.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago., Hate crimes--Illinois--Chicago., Racism--Illinois--Chicago., African Americans--Violence against--Illinois--Chicago., White supremacy movements--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358346
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-34626 URGE EXTREME ACTION CHICAGO -- Among the thousands of whites who stoned and jeered civil rights marchers in Chicago during July and August, 1966, were some who urged extreme action. Members of the National States’ Rights Party and the American Nazi Party were active participants in the anti-March protests. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RNS-8A-66-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., American Nazi Party., National States Rights Party (U.S.)
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago., Hate crimes--Illinois--Chicago., Racism--Illinois--Chicago., African Americans--Violence against--Illinois--Chicago., White supremacy movements--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358345
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-34393 RIGHTS LEADERS PUSHED OFF ROAD HERNANDO, Miss. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other Negro civil rights leaders, are pushed off the road at they resume a voters march begun by James Meredith. Later they continued their walk, marching single file along the highway’s shoulder. Mr. Meredith was short from ambush by a white man as he was marching from Memphis, Tenn., to Jackson, capital of Mississippi, in an effort to encourage Negro voting in the state’s primary election. Religious leaders were quick to condemn the shooting and called for greater efforts in behalf of Negro voting rights. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-6B-66-NAB)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hernando., Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Hernando., Voter registration--Mississippi., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Baptists., Clergy--Mississippi--Hernando., African American clergy--Mississippi--Hernando., Police--Mississippi--Hernando.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Hernando (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358344
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-32321 SELMA MARCH UNDERWAY AT LONG LAST SELMA, Ala. -- This aerial view shows a half-mile long column of civil rights demonstrators -- including many clergy -- on the first leg of a 50-mile march to Montgomery, the state capital, in support of the Negro voter registration drive. The marchers -- an estimate 3,500 left Selma -- are shown crossing the Pettus Bridge, where the first scheduled freedom march was broken up by state troopers on Sunday, March 7. This time, the march was authorized by a federal court and was protected by Army and federalized Alabama National Guard troops. Leading the walk was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which has been spearheading the long registration effort. At the end of the five-day march along U.S. Highway 80, Negro leaders hoped to present a civil rights petition to Gov. George C. Wallace, who earlier declined to protect the demonstrators. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-3D-65-NAB)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Edmund Pettus Bridge National Historic Site (Selma, Ala.), Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Selma., Bridges--Alabama--Selma., Voter registration--Alabama.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Selma (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358343
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Text transcribed from caption: #PBLEM-18874 PRINCIPALS IN ALABAMA BUS BOYCOTT MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Three ministers are among these four leaders of the three-month boycott here protesting segregation in city buses. Twenty-four clergymen will be among those tried on March 19 for allegedly violating the state’s anti-boycott law. Left to right are: The Rev. L.R. Bennett; the Rev. H.H. Hubbard; the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy; and E.D. Nixon, president of the local NAACP. The boycott was launched in December after a Negro seamstress was fined $14 for refusing to move to the rear of a bus. Alabama state and local laws require that Negro riders be segregated in public conveyance. Protestant church groups in various parts of the country have expressed sympathy with the boycott. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (MS-RAM-3C-56-NAB-PBLEM)
Creator:
Smith, Mildred. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990., Bennett, L. Roy., African Methodist Episcopal Church--Clergy., Hubbard, H.H., Nixon, Edgar Daniel.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery., Clergy--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery., Boycotts--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., African American clergy--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Montgomery (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358342
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Text transcribed from caption: P-29812 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING ADDRESSES WASHINGTON MARCHERS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A stirring climax to ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was reached when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stepped to the rostrum and called on the nation to end racial discrimination “now.” The Baptist minister, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was widely hailed as the “civil rights and religious leader” of the event. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-9A-63-NBM)
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Speeches, addresses, etc., Clergy--Washington (D.C.), African American clergy--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Baptists., Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358341
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Text transcribed from caption: P-27052 NEGROES PRAY FOR JUSTICE ALBANY, Ga. -- Negro demonstrators held a prayer meeting in front of the Albany (Ga.) City Hall to appeal for a just verdict for 11 Freedom Riders on trial there. Police form a cordon in the rear to forestall any violence. The Negro demonstrators, whose number sometimes rose to 700, held mass meetings in the Shiloh Baptist church. So far about 480 Negroes have been arrested for their participation in the demonstrations. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (UPI-NYC-12C-61-NM)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Freedom Rides, 1961., Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Albany., Prayer--Georgia--Albany., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Trials--Georgia--Albany.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Albany (Ga.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358340
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Text transcribed from caption: #61450 HEADS TOGETHER…BIRMINGHAM The “Big Three” of the Civil Rights Movement get their heads together here just before releasing their statement that accord had been reached on their grievances. L-R: Martin Luther King, Jr; Fred Shuttleworth; Ralph Abernathy 5-10-63
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011., Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights workers--Alabama--Birmingham., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Birmingham., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Clergy--Alabama--Birmingham., African American clergy--Alabama--Birmingham.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Birmingham (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358338
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Text transcribed from caption: #50502 MARCH ON JAIL…BIRMINGHAM, Ala…Barred window of waiting paddy wagon frames demonstrators -- some singing, some praying -- as an estimated 2,000 marched on the Birmingham jail May 5 in a segregation protest. (1963).
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Birmingham., Police vehicles--Alabama--Birmingham., Segregation--Alabama--Birmingham.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Birmingham (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358337
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Text transcribed from caption: UCC-29809 UNITED CHURCH SENDS LARGE DELEGATION TO WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D.C. -- One of the largest contingents among religious group sin the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was that of the United Church of Christ. The denominational banner was prominent among the thousands carried from the Washington Monument, in background, to the Lincoln Memorial during the March. Religious participation in the demonstration was vividly evident, with more than half of the banners identifying marching groups as those of churches, synagogues and related agencies and organizations. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-8E-63-NBM)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358334
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Text transcribed from caption: PO-29714 SERBIAN ROYALISTS OPPOSE NEW ORTHODOX BISHOP MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- Consecration ceremonies for Archimandrite Firmilijan of Pittsburgh, Pa., recently named as Midwest bishop in the Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese in the U.S. and Canada, were protested in Milwaukee, Wis., as about 100 Serbian Royalist pickets demonstrated outside St. Sava Cathedral. Signs they carried charged the new bishop with being a “pawn of the Yugoslavian Communists.” At one point during the picketing, minor scuffling broke out and police intervened to prevent more serious altercations. The incident was part of a continuing controversy over the division of the Diocese into three sections and the suspension of Bishop Dionisije, who has headed the entire Diocese, by the Church’s Council of Bishops in Belgrade. Bishop Dionisije refused to recognize the suspension; he said charges against him alleging canonical offense were lodged by a “handful of Communists among the American Serbs” and that the Council was under pressure from “Tito’s Communist regime in Yugoslavia.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RCW-Milw-8B-63-NBM)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358333
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Text transcribed from caption: PEO-29895 ORTHODOX CROSS RETRIEVED IN ANNUAL FESTIVAL BURLINGTON, Ont. -- An Orthodox youth holds up a cross triumphantly after retrieving it from the chilly waters of Lake Ontario prior to returning it to Metropolitan Athenagoras, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Canada (center). Ten swimmers dived into the lake to recover the religious article during the annual Festival of the Holy Cross. First to find it was Nicholas Apostolopoulos, 24, of Toronto. More than 5,000 persons, some from New York, were present at the traditional Greek ceremony which commemorates the Baptism of Christ. In Greece, the rite is usually held in January, but in North America the festival takes place during warmer months. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RL-TOR-9C-63-NAB)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358332

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