Scrapbook of Material from Our Lady of Guadalupe in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1930s–1960s

Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1960. Scrapbook in album with string binding; twenty-two double-sided pages measuring 9 ¾ x 12 ¼ inches with some items not affixed. Pages delicate with marginal damage; items very good plus to excellent. Overall very good plus.. A scrapbook containing photographs, sacramental cards, programs, and clippings relating to various church functions at the Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, between the 1930s and 1960s. The church was built next to the original Franciscan mission, built im the mid-1600s. Most of the events are various years’ feasts of St. Francis and of Our Lady of the Angels of Portiuncula, as the parish is Franciscan. Many of its parishioners seem to have been members of the Third Order of St. Francis; one photograph shows a number of men, women, and children wearing the scapular and cord of the Order, posed around the church’s Monseñor Baudelio Pelayo. Other photos show a festival for the children, the priest receiving a medal, and a retreat at Senecú, a small village outside Juárez. Clippings and flyers concern various Franciscan conferences, and a visit to Juárez by Franciscan leader Augustin-Joseph Sépinski.