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D85284-16
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- 1955-06-26 (Creation)
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Father Robert E. Zahn offers a kneeling parishioner communion during his first solemn high Mass on June 26, 1955. He places the Host on the woman's tongue while he holds onto the chalice. Assisting Rev. Zahn is believed to be Rev. Gabriel Donahue, pastor. Several men wearing slashes stand behind the row of communicants; it is possible that they are Knights of Columbus who were acting as ushers. Rev. Zahn's first Mass occurred at the Church of the Visitation. He was ordained a priest of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America on June 11, 1955, at Maryknoll Major Seminary, Maryknoll, New York. After celebrating his first mass in Tacoma, he would be assigned to missions in Japan. (TNT 5-29-55, D-6)
Zahn, Robert E.; Priests--Tacoma--1950-1960; Rites & ceremonies--Tacoma--1950-1960; Church of the Visitation (Tacoma);