From the Archives: Feast of St. Anthony of Padua, 1979

At St. Anthony of Padua in Union City, parishioner Evelyn Fontana places a loaf of homemade bread among the loaves of St. Anthony’s bread to be blessed by pastor Rev. Joseph Fiorino. The bread was distributed following a Mass for the Feast of St. Anthony of Padua on June 13, 1979.

(Photographer: Archdiocese of Newark Archives, Catholic Advocate Collection)

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