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Foot-washing at the Syriac church of Saint-Ephrem, Paris

Place: Paris · today France
Date: 1933

A priest in vestments kneels to wash the feet of a boy seated among a row of children at the Church of Saint-Ephrem des Syriens in Paris, during the Holy Week foot-washing ceremony, April 1933.

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Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica (Agence Rol press photographs)

Agence Rol · domaine public / public domain

Reference: Rol 171611; BnF Estampes EI-13 (1948)

Foot-washing at the Syriac church of Saint-Ephrem, Paris

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