Library in the New Chancery of the St. Louis Catholic Archdiocese houses this beautiful long conference table. The complete building is one of the Bank Building's proudest projects. About 1,000 square feet of area. Front of photograph "Please credit- Commercial Design Division of Bank Building & Equipment Corporation."
The Annual Carmelite Novena opened last night at the Carmelite Monastery, 9150 Clayton Rd., Ladue, with a record crowd estimated at 3,000 in attendance. Rev. Gabriel Hentrick of San Antonio, Second Provincial Definitor of the Southern Province of the Discalced Carmelite Fathers, delivered the sermon and will speak during the remaining services, which begin nightly at 8 o'clock.
The Processional to the Outdoor Altar opened the eighth annual novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel last night at the Carmelite Monastery on Clayton Road.
A statue of Mary was blessed and installed in the chapel of Carmelite Monastery, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. Located at 9150 Clayton Rd, Ladue, Missouri.
The Final Day of the Novena honoring Our Lady of Mount Carmel bought about 7,000 persons yesterday to the Carmelite Monastery, 9150 Clayton Rd., Ladue. At left children from St. Francis de Sales Church, 2657 Ohio Ave., knelt to pray. Part of the crowd of worshipers is shown at right. Total attendance for the nine days of the novena was 35,000.
The Annual Outdoor Novena or nine days of prayer in honor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is being held at the Carmelite Monastery, 9150 Clayton Rd., Ladue. This is a view of part of the processional opening the service. In the foreground is Rev. Alphonse Simon, director of King's House of Retreats, Belleville, who is preaching the sermons.
The Millionth Visitor to the Carmelite monastery from the legion of one thousand men- west is George Billy of Kirwood. Bishop Joseph McNicholas watches as Billy signs in Friday at the monastery at 9150 Clayton Rd., Ladue. Members of the legion pledge a weekly visit to the chapel from prayer.
Sister Mary Jane after making her final vows as a Carmelite nun at Jackson, Mississippi, talked from behind the grill with her mother, Mrs. Thomas J. Flynn of St. Louis.
The Lighted Altar for the Novena is on a platform at the base of a natural ampitheatre. Trees and shrubbery in pots form the background. At the left is a statue of Saint Teresa, the sixteenth century Carmelite nun who reformed the order; at the right is a statue of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
"Impressive Opening of Carmelite Novena. An impressive ceremony of prayer, in which 2,500 participated, took place last night on the lawn of the Carmelite Monastery, 9150 Clayton Rd. Ladue. It was the opening of the novena in honor of "Our Lady of Mount Carmel," the Blessed Virgin Mary. This picture was taken as teh congregation knelt for benediction of the Blessed Sacrament."
In A Pink Marble Pavilion on the monastery lawn, many of those attending lit candles before the statue of Our Lady of Fatima prior to the service. At Fatima the Blessed Virgin Mary is said to have warned the world that peace will not come without prayer.
Peace is Spelled Out by these candles, lit by the faithful as they pay homage to the Blessed Virgin's warning. The bigger candles burn all night long. And with the lighting of some of them went petitions written and placed in a box to be put on the altar during the service.
"In 1861, Reverend Mother Saint John Facemaz, Superior General of the Congregation, during a visit to the Holy City, obtained... the body of the child-martyr, St. Aurelia... The principal well-preserved bones are encased in a waxen figure clothed in Roman tunic and mantle, and the smaller ones are sealed in a metallic case, near which is placed the Vas Sanguinis, the vial of blood found in the
"In 1861, Reverend Mother Saint John Facemaz, Superior General of the Congregation, during a visit to the Holy City, obtained... the body of the child-martyr, St. Aurelia... The principal well-preserved bones are encased in a waxen figure clothed in Roman tunic and mantle, and the smaller ones are sealed in a metallic case, near which is placed the Vas Sanguinis, the vial of blood found in the
"Photograph of an oil painting of the two-room log cabin, which was the first American Mother House of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Attic sleeping quarters were reached by an outside ladder, as shown. The cabin convent was on the site of the present Mother House, 6400 Minnesota Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., where the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the order in America will be observed in mid-April."
"Outside view of the Holy Family Chapel at the Mother House, 6400 Minnesota Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., where the majority of the solemn religious exercises will be held in connection with the observance, in mid-April, of the one-hundredth anniversary of the establishment, in America, of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet."
