Today in 1879 St. Patrick's Cathedral is dedicated some twenty years after it was begun; it remains the largest Catholic cathedral in the United States.
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Today in 1879 St. Patrick's Cathedral is dedicated some twenty years after it was begun; it remains the largest Catholic cathedral in the United States.
