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Annual Our Lady of Mount Carmel novena brings celebration to Melrose Park

“To me, it was more important than Christmas.” That’s how Rosalie Augustine, 101, described the annual novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Melrose Park.

‘Broken Mary’ focus of peace procession

On the evening of May 31, the feast of the Visitation of Mary, over 1,500 people walked out of St. John Cantius Church at Chicago and Ogden Avenues and processed — holding candles and reciting the rosary — to the historic Water Tower to pray for peace in the city.

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