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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Document Type
Still Image
Call number of Original
107415C
Contributing Institution
Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives
Location
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA
Creation Date
7-24-1965
Format of Original
120mm gelatin silver negative
Description
Full exterior view of the Monastery of the Precious Blood, 166 State Street, from north. A community of the Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood have lived in the cloistered convent on State Street from 1934 through 2018.
While the convent originally housed 14 nuns, living in silence and prayer away from the world, the chapel was open daily for the public to visit as a place of contemplative prayer, daily Mass, and as a form of the Sisters' ministry.
Interior views of the chapel can be seen at the links below.
Photo published in the Evening Express, on 24 July 1965
Recommended Citation
"Monastery of the Precious Blood, 1965" (1965). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives. 319.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/319
Interior view of Chapel : 20 OCT 1951
Precious Blood Convent 02 FEB 2017 fr01.JPG (6016 kB)
Interior view of Chapel : 2 FEB 2017 (c) A. Schechter
Precious Blood Convent 02 FEB 2017 fr02.JPG (5757 kB)
Interior view of Chapel, with windows : 2 FEB 2017 (c) A. Schechter
Mother Catherine Aurelia.jpg (5382 kB)
Holy Card of Mother Catherine Aurelia - Foundress of the Sisters of the Precious Blood
Monastery of the Precious Blood - State Street - Litany Leaflet.pdf (4581 kB)
Litany of the Precious Blood of Jesus - Sisters of the Precious Blood, State Street, Portland
Keywords
Portland, Me., West End, Religious communities, Houses of worship
Image Location
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