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Ascension Day, May 5, was long ago chosen as the day Church & State would meet for the first time in the Cathedral choir and sanctuary. There would be Holy Communion, celebrated by the Cathedral's Dean George Carl Fitch Bratenahl, and a sermon, broadcast to the U. S. by stocky Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman, Bishop of Washington. There would be a procession in which would march representatives of other sects and Episcopal Bishops Darst of East Carolina, Abbott of Lexington, Ky., Jett of Southwestern Virginia, Cook of Delaware, Rhinelander (retired) of Pennsylvania. Most Rev. James De Wolf Perry, Presiding...
Dean. Spending this money, overseeing the whole Cathedral project is the work of Dean Bratenahl,* who has been connected with it from the beginning. Tall, mustached, shy, he would be 70 this week, day before the opening. Like Bishop Freeman, Dean Bratenahl was in business before entering the ministry. As chairman of the building committee and administrative head of the Cathedral Foundation, he has become an expert on cathedrals, stained glass, iconography...