About This Item

  • Title[Regina Pacis Votive Shrine priest displays returned crowns]
  • Call NumberCHUR_0698
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryMan wearing clerical attire, left, displays two jeweled crowns in cases to two men and three women; one woman carries small book. Caption: "...members of the Borough Park [sic] congregation [Regina Pacis Votive Shrine, 65th Street and 12th Avenue]--some weeping--view the crowns, whose return was dramatically made known to them during yesterday's 10 o'clock mass. Monsignor Cioffi said for the first time in his life he experienced thousands of persons applauding in church as he excitedly told his congregation that their prayers had been answered."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 9, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Retouched. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorJules Geller [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectRegina Pacis Votive Shrine ; Catholic Church -- Clergy -- New York (State) -- New York ; Catholic church buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Crowns -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBensonhurst (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.