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FIFTY-FIRST ST. AND PARKSIDE AVE. FUND

No. 1380 of 1956.

6 Pa. D. & C. 2d 193 (1956)

Fifty-first Street and Parkside Avenue Fund

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

May 18, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Montgomery, Jr., and Karl I. Schofield, for petitioner.

Frank F. Truscott and Irving N. Kieff, for Commonwealth.

James E. Gallagher, Jr., for Archbishop of Philadelphia.

Charles F. Gerhard, for various contributors.

KLEIN, P. J., May 18, 1956.

In September 1953 a report was widely circulated in Philadelphia that a group of children, playing in Fairmount Park, had witnessed an apparition of the Virgin Mary in a bush near the corner of Fifty-first Street and Parkside Avenue. As a result, tens of thousands of people came to view the bush during the ensuing weeks. A great number of these people left small sums of money at the site...

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