About This Item

  • TitleBoro shrine dedicated
  • Call NumberCHUR_0596
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFour men in clerical attire standing beside church garden with mosaic fountain, small trees and shrubbery, and a life-size statue of a woman with seven-candle candelabra and large bouguet of lilies on each side. Caption: "Boro shrine dedicated--Auxiliary Bishop Raymond A. Kearney blesses grotto to Our Lady of Fatima at Church of the Nativity, Classon Ave. and Madison St., yesterday. At his left is the church pastor, the Rev. John A. Kreig. The grotto was dedicated to the late Monsignor John L. Belford, pastor of the church for 46 years."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 1, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectChurch of the Nativity ; Catholic Church -- Clergy ; Catholic church buildings [lctgm] ; Statues
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.