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Baptism en Mass
Off-Ramp with John Rabe Hero Image
(
Dan Carino
)
Aug 29, 2009
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Baptism en Mass
Abel Salas takes us to a downtown LA church where hundreds of infants are baptized every weekend. The photo depicts another mass baptism...in the Pacific Ocean circa 1930.
A woman wearing a white baptismal gown is led from the ocean by witnesses in bathing suits after her baptism in the surf next to the Municipal Pier in Long Beach.
A woman wearing a white baptismal gown is led from the ocean by witnesses in bathing suits after her baptism in the surf next to the Municipal Pier in Long Beach.
(
LAPL Photo Collection
)

Abel Salas takes us to a downtown LA church where hundreds of infants are baptized every weekend. The photo depicts another mass baptism...in the Pacific Ocean circa 1930.

Abel Salas takes us to a downtown LA church where hundreds of infants are baptized every weekend.
The photo depicts another mass baptism...in the Pacific Ocean circa 1930.