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Photograph of Richard L. York at the Festival of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Held in the parking lot next to 2427 Haste, the event began at 4 pm Saturday and was the first public event sponsored by the Free Church. Around 1000 attended. During the intermission, York, Chuck Robert and David Stone processed through the crowd, led by two men with censors (one being Gar Smith, veteran peace activist and environmentalist). They stopped to wash the feet of 12 hippies. York read the prayer by Michael Quoist, "I would like to rise very high, Lord, / Above my city, above the world, above time. / I would like to purify my glance, and borrow your eyes..." They blessed the crowd, sprinkling them with holy water, then stopped at the feet of the 10-foot effigy of the Virgin Mary.
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image
Format
Photograph (black and white); 7 x 9 1/2 in (17.8 x 24.2 cm.)
Berkeley Free Church (Berkeley, Calif.) York, Richard L Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Assumption Christianity--20th century Fasts and feasts--Episcopal Church Festivals Hippies--Religious life
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