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Title: Memorial Mass at Monte Cassino.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: C-30615 MEMORIAL MASS AT MONTE CASSINO MONTE CASSINO, Italy -- A memorial Mass was celebrated in the reconstructed world famous Monte Cassino Abbey to mark the 20th anniversary of its destruction by allied bombing in World War II. Top photo shows an unidentified woman lighting a candle at the tomb of a Polish soldier, one of more than 1,200 buried in a military cemetery below the Benedictine abbey. Polish troops serving with British forces helped to recapture the abbey from the Germans. Below is the abbey as it appeared 20 years ago after the bombardment. First built in 529 by St. Benedict, founder of the Benedictine Order, the abbey is located on a 1,600-foot hill. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-26-64-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, February 15, 1964, February 15, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Montecassino (Monastery)
Topical Subject(s): Cassino, Battle of, Cassino, Italy, 1944., Benedictine monasteries--Cassino--Italy., Memorial service., Bereavement--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Geographic subjects: Cassino, Italy., Frosinone (Italy : Province), Europe--Italy--Lazio--Frosinone
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. C-30615; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_C-30615b
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:353728

Title: 20 years later at Cassino.
Description: Newspaper clipping from unidentified publication.
Date Created: 1964, February 15, 1964, February 15, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Montecassino (Monastery)
Topical Subject(s): Cassino, Battle of, Cassino, Italy, 1944., Benedictine monasteries--Cassino--Italy., Memorial service., Bereavement--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. C-30615; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_C-30615_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:353671

Title: Casualty of World War II.
Description: Alternate caption.
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
Date Created: 1964, February 15, 1964, February 15, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Montecassino (Monastery)
Topical Subject(s): Cassino, Battle of, Cassino, Italy, 1944., Benedictine monasteries--Cassino--Italy., Memorial service., Bereavement--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. C-30615; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_C-30615_04
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:353645

Title: On the 20th anniversary.
Description: Alternate caption.
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
Date Created: 1964, February 15, 1964, February 15, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Montecassino (Monastery)
Topical Subject(s): Cassino, Battle of, Cassino, Italy, 1944., Benedictine monasteries--Cassino--Italy., Memorial service., Bereavement--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. C-30615; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_C-30615_03
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:353463

Title: Memorial Mass at Monte Cassino.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: C-30615 MEMORIAL MASS AT MONTE CASSINO MONTE CASSINO, Italy -- A memorial Mass was celebrated in the reconstructed world famous Monte Cassino Abbey to mark the 20th anniversary of its destruction by allied bombing in World War II. Top photo shows an unidentified woman lighting a candle at the tomb of a Polish soldier, one of more than 1,200 buried in a military cemetery below the Benedictine abbey. Polish troops serving with British forces helped to recapture the abbey from the Germans. Below is the abbey as it appeared 20 years ago after the bombardment. First built in 529 by St. Benedict, founder of the Benedictine Order, the abbey is located on a 1,600-foot hill. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-26-64-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, February 15, 1964, February 15, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Montecassino (Monastery)
Topical Subject(s): Cassino, Battle of, Cassino, Italy, 1944., Benedictine monasteries--Cassino--Italy., Memorial service., Bereavement--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Geographic subjects: Cassino, Italy., Frosinone (Italy : Province), Europe--Italy--Lazio--Frosinone
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. C-30615; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_C-30615a
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:353727

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