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ARGE NUMBER CHILDREN MAKE FIRST COMMUNION: SEVENTY MEN JOIN RELIGIOUS ORDER .The Holy Ghost. (colored) Catholic church was again the scene of Brilli ent ceremonies last Sunday, May 8, when sixty-five children received for the first time the bread of Carist'a body and the wine of His Blood. At the 10 o'clock mass a still mass im pressive ceremony was witnessed when two hundred men, after receiv ing holy communion in a body, renew ed, with lighted candles held aloft in heir hands, (heir baptismal vows, pledging fidelity to the practice of the teachings of Christ. To the quest ion of Mother Hyland, “Do, you promi se to be faithful to the Hat?” a veri table shout came from one thousand thoats, “I do’ promise!” _ Father Schmodry af New Orleans sang the high mass, ‘The famous Martel band supplied the music at the grounds Seventy men joined the religious or der Knights of Peter Claver, FOR SALE Remington No, if Typewriter, Practically new, Also Underwood and Caroma. Per price apply 49 Poa: office Box 268, , Latayetty. ta . may leat
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Saint Landry Clarion
Opelousas, Louisiana, US
Sat, May 14, 1921
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