Father Catich in Rome

Stolen from twitter: pictures of Father Edward Catich in mid-creation of the Trajan font.

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Father Catich and some seminarians in the Forum of Trajan, ca. 1950

The rubbing of the base of Trajan’s Column that led to the creation of the font.

For more on this, see The Eternal Letter edited by Reed alumnus Paul Shaw and with a contribution from our own Gregory MacNaughton.

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