Marian Year of 1954
...ular institutions. Over 30,000 people attended the main event at the Civic Center, including Gregorio Cardinal Agagianian, Patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church, and Thomas Cardinal Tien Ken-sin, exiled Archbishop of Beijing. Halvey_K434_004 Halvey_K428_003 Halvey_K428_004 Halvey_K435_002 Decades later, Pope John Paul II would call for a Marian Year beginning
Centennial Exposition
...olic Total Abstinence Union. The fountain which still stands near the Mann Center features statues of Moses, Archbishop Carroll, Charles Carroll, Father Mathew, and Commodore Barry. Among the exhibits, the Vatican had sent art and artifacts to be displayed in Memorial Hall, including mosaics of the Madonna and a tapestry