Opening of Marian Year

Image represented is one of a related set (CHUR 0786), some of which may also be described in this new record; Church service: many parishioners, three men wearing clerical attire standing in front of altar (with seven candles in candlesticks and two floral bouquets), dome-topped canopy over altar, many altar boys sitting (and standing) in chancel, smaller altar on each side with life-size statue, and three stained glass windows and two murals behind altar; images nearly identical; 0788 shows three priests before altar; 0786 shows four priests before altar and six standing altar boys before priests. Caption: "Opening of Marian Year--Auxiliary Bishop Raymond A. Kearney celebrates a solemn pontifical mass at St. James Pro-Cathedral [Jay Street and Cathedral Place] opening the year-long commemoration of the proclamation of the Roman Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Bishop Kearney is flanked by the Rev. Thomas Sutherland, left, and the Rev. John Fee. The mass yesterday also marked the close of the centennial year of the Brooklyn diocese."