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...desirable post in the Protestant Episcopal Church is that of dean of a cathedral. Often ranking next to his bishop, a dean bears the title "Very Reverend," usually administers the cathedral, plans its services. For two decades a notable U. S. dean has been Very Rev. George Carl Fitch Bratenahl, onetime president of the Society of Deans of Cathedrals in America, associated with the "National" Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul in Washington, D. C. since it was in blueprints 40 years ago. Tall, shy, scholarly Dean Bratenahl knows more about cathedral traditions than anyone else...
...customary to bless the hounds before the season's first hunt, often on St. Hubert's feast-day, Nov. 3. Not many U. S. Hunts have adopted the practice. This autumn the Washington Riding & Hunt Club got as blesser Very Rev. George Carl Fitch Bratenahl, the tall, bespectacled, scholarly Episcopal dean who spends most of his time overseeing the building of Washington Cathedral (TIME, May 9). Dean Bratenahl put on full vestments, was photographed giving the Church's solemn benediction to the yapping, scrambling hounds. Prayed he: "Brethren, we are gathered here to ask the blessing...
...Dean Bratenahl debasing the cloth...
Here the controversialists missed a point. The hounds Dean Bratenahl blessed scrambled off not after a fox but after a little scent bag in a drag hunt...
...Dean Bratenahl lives near the Cathedral, spends most of his time there. His wife is the Cathedral's landscape architect. On the slope of Mount Saint Alban to the south of the Cathedral is the Bishop's Garden, open to the public. Here are Gothic and Romanesque sculptures, collected with the aid of George Grey Barnard. Nearby are box bushes, ancient and costly, brought from Virginia. Mrs. Bratenahl plans the planting, often gets donations from ladies who are pleased with her suggestions: such as that a $5 gift be spent for moss at the base of an old cross...