Parishioners at St. William Parish, 2600 N. Sayre Ave., celebrated the 115th anniversary of a novena to St. Rocco Aug. 19, 2018. The money collected is donated to parish ministries and other charities. The event is sponsored by the Society of St. Rocco di Potenza. The society was founded at St. Mary of Mount Carmel Parish by Paul Carelli after he prayed to the saint to heal his 5-year-old daughter from illness.
Old St. Patrick’s celebrates 1,500th anniversary of Ireland’s ‘matron’ Quick, name a saint — not Patrick — whose feast day is a national holiday in Ireland. Need a hint? This saint is often depicted with a shepherd’s staff, or depending on how you look at it, a bishop’s crozier. As well as a cow, and a plain book.
Relics of St. Thérèse, her parents, visit national shrine in Darien Thousands of people made the trip to the National Shrine of St. Thérèse in Darien Sept. 17 through Oct. 1 to venerate the relics of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and her parents, Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin.
Why do we exhume saints’ bodies and preserve their relics? Deacon David Keene is a canon lawyer who serves as chancellor of the Archdiocese of Chicago, but he also holds a doctorate in archeology and is an expert in the exhumation of human remains. Before he retired, federal, state, county and local officials regularly called him when remains were found and needed to be preserved or relocated.