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Statues for Toorak Convent Grotto
Senior prefects Judy Mc-
Namara, Veronica Gorman, Diane
Holmberg, Janice Brew and Ruth
Trait are seen in the picture of
the new statues blessed by Rev.
W. Ebsworth, P.P., on All Saints
eve at the Loreto Convent, Mandeville
Hall. The statues—Our
Lady of Lourdes and Si. Bernadette—were
manufactured by special
process for the beautiful
grotto now a feature of the spacious
grounds. A mixture of
overseas and local white marble
was pressed in a mould and
shaped to produce natural life-size
figures of very fine and lasting
quality. The statue of Our Lady
weighs nearly a ton, that of St.
Bernidette about four hundredweight.
The ceremony of the
cro.vning of Our Lady was performed
by Miss Judy McNamara
to mark the declaration of the
dogma of the Assumption to be
made the following day.
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