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Can you name the location?
St. Francis of Assisi with altar rail and "old" wallpaper

Posted: 09/12/2001


Can you name the location?
St. Francis Church, North Adams

Comments...
Could this be a picture of the funeral of one of our priests. Near the altar it looks like there is an open casket. Could it be Father Murphy or Monsignor Donahue?

Posted: 09/12/2001


Can you name the location?
St. Francis Church

Comments...
All the women wearing hats--must have been late 40's or 50's.

Posted: 09/13/2001


Can you name the location?
St. Francis Church

Comments...
Funeral Mass for Msgr. John. P. Donahue who was pastor during the late 50s and early to mid-60s. This might have been about 1968-70.

Posted: 09/13/2001


What was the Year?
1940

What was the Season?
summer

Can you name the location?
StFrancis Church

Comments...
Father Dumphy funeral??

Posted: 09/22/2001


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Father Dunphy was Pastor in the 40/50 timeframe. A great priest, bar none. Remember how he use to give every single kid in St Josephs a box of Christmas candy, paying for it out of his own pocket too. I had the great honor of being an alter boy at several of his Masses.

Posted: 04/13/2005


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I too had the great honor of serving as an alterboy for Father Dunphy's masses during the 40's. I remember so well the many early morning masses (in the side Chapel) that Father said, regarless of the weather outside. He was an inspiration to every young Catholic in North Adams and the surrounding area. As mentioned by others, the Christmas candy was definitely a true gift each Christmas that we all looked forward to. God Bless him.

Posted: 02/14/2006


Can you name the location?
St Francis

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I was a student at St. Joseph's, and very young It's Father Dumphy's funeral.. students were brought to the church to view his body. First time I ever saw a body... I believe it was the late 40s.

Posted: 03/11/2009


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Notice the space up where the coffin is. Wasn't that done AFTER Fr. Dunphy had passed away. Hard to see where the actual alter rail is, seems like a barrier just in back of the coffin up to the alter rail. That church is still one of the most beautiful ones around.

Posted: 03/11/2009


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Had to be pre 1965, and I think Father Murphy died in 1966, Msgr. Donahue in 1968. I was a freshman at St. Joseph High School in 1965-66, and Vatican II changes put an altar facing the people, which is not there, implemented in 1963 or 1964. The altar rail always had a gate which would open, which the gate is open in the photo.

Posted: 03/27/2011


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