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Confirmation, 1889

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Confirmation, 1889
mary kate, Apr 12, 2019
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This is one of my favourite family photos. It dates from 1889, and it’s my maternal great-grandmother in her Confirmation veil. The church record (bottom right) indicates that she was confirmed on 30 October 1889, at age 13. The parish register includes a lengthy account of the ceremony, which took place “at 10:30 o’clock, after a solemn Mass:” apparently “the church was filled to overflowing;” and after Archbishop Cleary “examined…the candidates for Confirmation” in their catechism (“the examination lasted three hours” [!?]), the children pledged “to abstain until the completion of their twenty first year of age from intoxicating liquors of every Kind.”

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    • mcurtt
      Wonderful heritage layout! I love the added ephemera along with the researched data. I love that photo of your great-grandmother.
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    • Karen
      Wow! What an amazing treasure of a photo and I love that you also have so much information about the photo and that day! So cool! Can you imagine 3 hours of verbal examinations!? Yikes! Fabulous page!
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    • janedee
      Lovely heritage page!!
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    • Iowan
      Great memory keeping here and I just love that old photo. Wonderful job with this page.
      Apr 13, 2019
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    • weaselwatchr
      What a wonderful heritage page. I am always so jealous of these when I see them in the galleries. I have no older photos to scrap. Love your journaling too!
      Apr 13, 2019
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    • katell
      Amazing memory and picture, love your lo
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