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Commemorating the grit of priests and D Day with manly photos

Last updated on: January 26, 2017 at 9:35 pm

June 6, 2012 by Katrina Fernandez

… I contend there is no other religion more manly and burly and punk rock than Catholicism. I know Google forgot, but today is D Day. Eh, they’re a bunch of commies anyway. To honor the occasion and the grit that makes up Catholic priests I offer you these images to consider.

Fr. Sampson — Fr. Francis L. Sampson blesses the dead

gravephoto51 — Fr. Sampson of Sioux Falls, S.D., gives absolution to American paratroopers killed in action, in Saint Marie Dumont, France, U.S. Army Photo, 7 June 1944 (Note that bodies are wrapped in parachutes)

Read the bio of Fr. Sampson here.

d_day — Photographed by Frank Scherschel - Priest administering Last Rites and the Eucharist to a soldier in France

2012-06-06_1621 — photographed by Frank Scherschel- A priest says mass in the dappled sunlight of France

Source – Before and After D Day – Rare Color Photos. See all 26.

I love our priests.

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