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Chapel on Top of Mt. Sinai

View which includes three people standing by the chapel situated on top of Mt. Sinai in Egypt. Thayer describes the image as "the chapel built on the top of Mt. Sinai. In the foreground my wife [Cynthia], the priest and another member of the party." Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mt. Sinai and St. Catherine's Monastery in March 1961. Photos intended for possible magazine article. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

Holy Hour Mass Meeting

Cardinal Samuel Stritch (top of steps) confers citations on Catholic Chaplains as they file into Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, for Holy Hour Mass Meeting. The woman pictured on the banner is Mother Cabrini, the first saint from the United States.