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Marian Days participants watch Bishop Edward Rice of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau celebrate the opening Mass of the festival in Carthage, Missouri, Aug. 4. The events, organized by the Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer, a men's religious order from Vietnam that settled in Missouri in the 1970s, began in 1978. (Peter Tran)