Religious Ceremonies in Historical Context

Images of religious figures and ceremonies, reflecting 20th-century rituals in various contexts, including fascist Italy and Easter traditions.

Calendar of religious ceremonies in Jerusalem, Easter period, 1941. Syrian Orthodox Palm Sunday procession led by Archbishop Jacob Filixinos. 1941, Israel
Calendar of religious ceremonies in Jerusalem, Easter period, 1941. Syrian Orthodox Palm Sunday procession led by Archbishop Jacob Filixinos. 1941, Israel
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Annefors chapel. The priest is Oskar Eurbiuss Grape (Olsson), born 1871. Annefors kapell. Prästen är Oskar Eurbiuss Grape (Olsson), född 1871. Byggnad: Annefors kapell
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Head of the Catholic Church Pope Pius XII in 1941 with the future Paul VI (right)
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Uncle Robert with his communion childrenSalzschlirf. Uncle Robert with his communion children
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DEBORAH KERR and FLORA ROBSON in BLACK NARCISSUS (1947), directed by EMERIC PRESSBURGER.
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Baptism of Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, in the Willemskerk in The Hague on June 5, 1909, 1909 photomechanical print Baptism of Juliana in the Willemskerk in The Hague on 5 June 1909. Below three lines of Dutch text. Maker: Netherlandspublisher: The Hatepublisher: The Hagueri paper collotype Willemskerk
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04/30/1922. Toledo. In the church of Santo Domingo el Real. The Madrid Excursionists Who Attended the "Toledana Night" Listening to Matins.
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Photograph of Jewish men, women and children praying at the Western Wall, Jerusalem. Dated 1910
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Arhbishop Carboni enters St. Patrick's Cathedral today to preside at the Solemn high Mass to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Following is Archbishop Mannix and Archbishop Mannix and Reverend L. Kelly. Reverend Kelly Preached on St. Patrick. January 01, 1954.
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Their Majesties the King and the Queen photographed in robes after the opening of parliament. May 6, 1935. (Photo by Vandyk).
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Baptism of a Russ.Kind in the Russ.Kirche in Vladimir-Wolynskij. (10 / II.1918.).
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Kisaeng (also spelled gisaeng), sometimes called ginyeo, were female official prostitutes or entertainers. Kisaeng are artists who work to entertain others, such as the yangban aristocracy and kings. First appearing in the Goryeo Dynasty, kisaeng were legally entertainers of the government, required to perform various functions for the state. Many were employed at court, but they were also spread throughout the country. They were carefully trained, and frequently accomplished in the fine arts, poetry, and prose, although their talents were often ignored due to their inferior social status. Women of the kisaeng class performed various roles, although they were all of the same low status in the eyes of yangban society. Aside from entertainment, these roles included medical care and needlework. In some cases, such as at army bases, kisaeng were expected to fill several such roles. Kisaeng, both historic and fictional, play an important role in Korean conceptions of the traditional culture
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'Robed and Crowned', May 12 1937. Artist: Unknown.
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Nuku'alofa. Roman Catholic Mission. The Coral Church, 29 July 1884, New Zealand, by Burton Brothers, Alfred Burton.
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12/22/1918. The first Communion of the Infants.Ss.Aa.Rr. Mr. Jaime, Mrs. Beatriz and Mrs. Cristina After receiving the Sacrament yesterday Tomorrow.
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05/31/1941. On the occasion of the golden anniversary of the RM María del Pilar, superior of the School of Military Orphans, several events were held in Aranjuez. General Alonso Vega imposed the cross of military merit with a white badge on the aforementioned nun.
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Makarevsky Retreat, Group of priests; Karl Karlovitz Bulla (Russian, 1854 - 1929); 1913; Gelatin silver print; 16.8 x 22.5 cm (6 5,8 x 8 7,8 in.)
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Chaplain Emanuel M. Honig, (center) of Portland, Oregon, Chaplain for the 12th Air Force in the Mediterranean theatre of operations conducts High Holy Day services for soldiers of the Jewish Faith at a base on the Island of Corsica.
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03/29/1913. At the Worker exhibition in Seville. The archbishop and the Authorities in the fish market during the opening ceremony of the important Sevillian competition.
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Monks at dinner in the refectory, Asile St Leon, France, c1947-1951. Artist: Unknown
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Russian priestesses of Ain Karim 1900, Jerusalem, Israel
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Hooded Figures In Religious Procession -- Penitents clothed in blacked habits and with hoods on their heads carrying crosses during to religious ceremony held in Furnes, near Bruges, Belgium, yesterday. April 22, 1940. (Photo by Keystone).
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06/01/1913. The congregation of Saint Christopher. Blessing of the Automobiles Held yesterday afternoon in the church of Saint Nicholas of this court.
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Anefo photo collection. Century party large seminary in Rijsenburg among other Mgr. Alfrink. July 22, 1957. Rijsenburg, Utrecht
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Confirmation. Konfirmation.
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Vice Pres't. Marshall at church
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Funeral of Suprme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church circa 1911.
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Palestine is a name given to the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The region is also known as the Land of Israel, the Holy Land and the Southern Levant. In 1832 Palestine was conquered by Muhammad Ali's Egypt, but in 1840 Britain intervened and returned control of the Levant to the Ottomans in return for further capitulations. The end of the 19th century saw the beginning of Zionist immigration and the Revival of the Hebrew language. The movement was publicly supported by Great Britain during World War I with the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The British captured Jerusalem a month later, and were formally awarded a mandate in 1922. In 1947, following World War II and the Holocaust, the British Government announced their desire to terminate the Mandate, and the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition the territory into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jewish leadership accepted the proposal but the Arab Higher Committee rejected it; a
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The immense wedding cake of King Faruk and Queen Farida of Egypt. Date: January 1938
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Moslems Parade For Leader's Feast -- East meets West in the streets of South Shields. Many of the Moslem wear European style. The feast of Sidi el Allowaia brought a breath of the mystic orient to South Shields, when children elders of the town's Moslem paraded to their mosque in homage to their 1eader, Wearing their colourful eastern robes and carrying Islamic banners, the Moslems went through the South Shields streets to their mosque, where Sheik Mahomoud Norman sought Allah's blessing them. M
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Group picture for golden confirmation. The gentlemen
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Anefo photo collection. Bundstrasze 403 in Coevorden officially used the bishop of Munster C. von Galen (left), reaches a certificate. April 22, 1963. Coevorden
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Image of bringing in sick and bedridden believers during a sick triduum in the St.-Dominicus church (Mariaplaats) in Utrecht.
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Rome, Italy may 1964: Group of children praying with a priest during their first communion ceremony in a church, in a vintage black and white photo from the 1960s
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Catholic priest, c1935. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes.
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Tsar Nicholas II talking to Religious representatives during the Celebrate the 100th Annyversary of the War in 1812, Russian Photographer
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Confirmation. Konfirmation.
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Two Monks with Telescope
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Funeral, procession with coffin in front of a church in Naples, 1880, Italy, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a photo by Giorgio Sommer, coloured, Europe
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Reading children in forest born in 1878 with church pastor Samelius. Mentioned in the second row from the right, "Lill-Anna" Stålberg and besides her Signe Wibling who became a teacher in Sunnäs. Läsbarn i Skog födda 1878 med kyrkoherde Samelius.Nämnes i andra raden från höger, "Lill-Anna" Stålberg och vid sidan om henne Signe Wibling som blev lärarinna i Sunnäs.
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Trial by a Dutch Colonial court in Indonesia of a local man
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A picture was used to promote the salvation of China during the Japanese invasion.
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The practice of Christianity in Korea revolves around two of its largest branches, Protestantism and Catholicism, accounting for 8.6 million and 5.3 million members respectively. Roman Catholicism was first introduced during the late Joseon Dynasty period. In 1603, Yi Gwang-jeong, Korean diplomat, returned from Beijing carrying several theological books written by Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit missionary to China. He began disseminating the information in the books and the first seeds of Christianity were sown. In 1758 King Yeongjo of Joseon officially outlawed Catholicism as an evil practice. Roman Catholicism was again introduced in 1785 by Yi Seung-hun. Korean Christians were subject to persecution and hardship. Many were martyred, especially during the Catholic Persecution of 1801 and later. The Joseon Dynasty saw the new religion as a subversive influence and persecuted its earliest followers in Korea, culminating in the Catholic Persecution of 1866, in which 8,000 Catholics across the c
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Anefo photo collection. Marriage in Portuguese Israelite synagogue. April 11, 1954
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Johan Schreil, Pastor Carl-Axel Malmberg, Admiralty pastor Carl-Ossian Elmgård, Master Jonasson at the Carpenter Workshop at Ulrica Pia, the oldest found epitaphury .. Johan Schreil, Pastor Carl-Axel Malmberg, Admiralities Carl-Ossian ElmgårdPia, the oldest recovered epitaph.
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Anefo photo collection. Group of good temples. September 6, 1946
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Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio with a Trappist monk at Maguzzano abbey, Lombardy, Italy, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIX, No 41, October 8, 1922.
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Moscow. USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Deputies to the Supreme Soviet in the Kremlin between 1930 and 1940
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Japan, tokyo, a group of Japanese Catholics, 1940-50.
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Mr. W.E. Reid greets Mr. Bryan Fuller K.E. arriving at St. James Church for the Service to the legal Profession. February 13, 1947.
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Distribution of Maundy Money At St. Paul's -- Princess Marie Louise (right) and Princess Helena Victoria leaving after the ceremony. The first coins to bear the head of King George VI were specially struck for the Maundy Thursday service held to-day at St. Paul's Cathedral, London. The silver penny, two penny, three penny, and four penny pieces are given to as many old men and women as the King has years of age - 42. March 25, 1937. (Photo by Topical Press).
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01/01/1940. Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate.
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The Holodomor was a man-made famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1932 and 1933 that killed an estimated 2.5-7.5 million Ukrainians, with millions more counted in demographic estimates. It was part of the wider disaster, the Soviet famine of 1932-33, which affected the major grain-producing areas of the country. During the Holodomor millions of citizens of the Ukrainian SSR, the majority of whom were ethnic Ukrainians, died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine.Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by the independent Ukraine and many other countries as a genocide of the Ukrainian people carried out by the Soviet Union.
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Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. The bishop of South New Guinea, Mgr. H. Tillemans, in conversation with Ms. A. Molthoff (teacher and the Sisters Cyria and Coleta). October 1954. New Guinea
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Duke of Gloucester at Scottish Revival of order of St. John, First Procession for 400 Years -- The Duke of Gloucester (left) and the Earl of Lindsay preceded by sword bearers as they walk in procession at Holyroodhouse.The Duke of Gloucester, as Grand Prior of the Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem (oldest order of chivalry, dating back to the 11th century) attended a ceremony at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, in which the order was revived in Scotland.Representing the King, Supreme Head of the order, the Duke of installed the Earl of Lindsay as head of the order in Scotland. June 28, 1947.
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On Firday, December 9, Indian women in colourful saris will appear in Castleragh Street and sell buttons for the United Nations Appeal for Children. Picture are: Mrs. Aloka Das Gupta (with tray), Mrs. Satya Mehta, Mrs. Santwana Mitra, and Miss Jayanti Sen (Whit tray). December 09, 1955. (Photo by John Colless Public Relations).
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Offiz.messe des Et.boon 408 in Középlak.
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Primate Officials at his Son's Wedding - The bridal procession through the Cathedral Cloisters after the Wedding. For the first time more than a Century, a Primate of England Officiated at the wedding of a member of his family at Canterbury Cathedral today, when the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Fisher, married his son, Mr. Charles Fisher, to Miss Anne Gilmour Hammond of Southern Rhodesia. April 15, 1952.
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Before the church in Dogna. .
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Hasidic Jews at City Hall demonstrating against crime their Brooklyn neighborhood, circa 1976.
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12/31/1927. Catholic Students - on the occasion of the feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas - Approximate date.
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Historic photograph, confirmation, pastor and boys
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Group picture for golden confirmation. The ladies
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10/12/1964. Offering of Flowers to the Virgin by the Queen of the Festivities.
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Card commemorating the Papal Golden Jubilee of Pope Pius X's ordination as a priest in 1858. His portrait sits above a photograph of a group of Roman Catholic cardinals and church dignitaries and is flanked by portraits of Franz Joseph I, King of Austria who came to the throne in 1848 and was still King in 1908 (he died in 1916). Date: 1908