From the Archives: St. Peter’s Parish Aids War Relief Effort in 1947

Rev. John S. Nelligan and Msgr. Joseph M. Kelly prepare to load boxes of clothing on truck in 1947. The parishioners of St. Peter’s, Belleville collected the clothes, which were to be sent to Europe as part of the war relief effort.

(Photographer: Kondreck Studios, Belleville/ Archdiocese of Newark Archives, photograph collection)  

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