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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45099 'OLD NORTH' ANNIVERSARY IS ECUMENICAL
BOSTON -- Leaders of Boston's Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish
communities, along with public officials, joined in a unique "Ecumenical
Service of Thanksgiving" commemorating the 250th anniversary of Boston's
historic Christ church, popularly known as "Old North." Participants included
(left to right) retired Episcopal Bishop Frederic C. Lawrence, Roman Catholic
Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston, Bishop John W. Burgess of the Episcopal
Diocese of Massachusetts, the Rev. Robert W. Golledge, Vicar of Old North,
and Presiding Bishop John E. Hines of the Episcopal Church. The theme of the
service was Old North's "Years of Freedom, Years of God," and it launched the
church's observance of the national bicentennial. It was in Christ Church's
slender steeple that Paul Revere sighted the lanterns that warned of the
approach of British redcoats on April 18, 1775. During the service, Cardinal
Medeiros read a cable from Cardinal Jan Willebrands, head of the Vatican's
Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, expressing Pope Paul's best wishes
and blessings to those present, as well as his thanks to the cardinal for
participating in the ecumenical service. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS
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