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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: July 13, 2014
Caption: National Humiliation Day
Additional Description: Page's Chapel was Episcopal Bishop Thomas John Claggett's home church. In 1812 President Madison declared the third Thursday in August a day of "fasting, prayer, and humiliation" for the declaration of war. Claggett ordered all churches in the Diocese of Maryland to comply.

Page's Chapel (1745) Architectural Rendering Firm of Milton L. Grigg, 1954.Close-up of drawing on marker
Submitted: July 15, 2014, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p279129
File Size: 2.667 Megabytes

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