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A life of teaching and sanctifying: Images of Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua’s life

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  • Ronald Reagan and Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua

  • While visiting a school for the deaf and hearing-impaired, Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua allows a child to try on his miter.

  • Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua.

  • Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua at work in his office at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center.

  • Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua greets a parishioner.

  • Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua.

  • Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua at the opening of the library named after him.

  • The late Cardinal John P. Foley (left) joins Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua (second from left) and another prelate to see the Liberty Bell.

  • Cardinal John Krol installs Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua as archbishop of Philadelphia.

  • Cardinal Bevilacqua reads from the Gospels during the celebration of Mass.

  • Cardinal Bevilacqua celebrates Mass.

  • Cardinal Bevilacqua at a Phillies game May 19, 1989.

  • Then-Cardinal Ratzinger at the podium, Cardinal Bevilacqua on right.

  • Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua with his mother, 1944.

  • Blessed John Paul II with Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua in 1988.

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