The normal tradition in the Catholic church is that saints are commemorated on the anniversary of their deaths, which makes the fact that the feasts of Saint Monica and her son Saint Augustine occupy consecutive days seem a bit suspect, although apparently, the day was shifted from May in 1969 so it’s not merely coincidence (as I’ve been doing this project, I’ve been encountering lots of interesting bits of sausage making with the saints).
The church itself is deep into the northwest side of Chicago in a neighborhood that seems more suburban than city. The parish consists of two churches and a school, with one of the churches almost exclusively having liturgies in Polish (it has a few weekday masses in English).
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