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The cemetery was officially opened on 30 May 1912 (the Memorial Day). The first burial was a two-year-old child reinterred from the Saint Casimir Cemetery. [4] The cemetery was blessed by Stasys Mickevičius, founder of the Lithuanian National Catholic Church (who is buried at the cemetery).
St. Casimir Lithuanian Cemetery (Švento Kazimiero Kapinės at 4401 W. 111th Street) is a Lithuanian cemetery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago on the edge of the southwest side of Chicago where many deceased Lithuanians are buried. [34] Lithuanian National Cemetery in Justice, Illinois [35]
Saint Boniface Cemetery 4901 N. Clark St., Chicago: 1863 Primarily German Catholic [19] Saint Casimir Lithuanian Cemetery 4401 W. 111th St., Chicago: 1903 Primarily Lithuanian Catholic Saint Gabriel Cemetery 164th St. and Cicero Ave., Oak Forest: 1913 Catholic (Potter's Field) Saint Henry Cemetery Devon Ave. and Ridge Ave., Chicago: 1863
The women's congregation Sisters of Saint Casimir was established in 1908 by Maria Kaupas and is active in the United States. In 1945, the College of Saint Casimir was established in Rome to educate Lithuanian priests who fled west after World War II. [35] Fresco of Saint Casimir in the Santuario della Mentorella , painted in the 19th century
Saint Casimir Church (Polish: Parafia św. Kazimierza w Cleveland) is a Catholic parish church in Cleveland, Ohio, and part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland ...
On August 29, 1907, Kaupas made her profession of religious vows, and the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Casimir was founded. [1] The Sisters immediately began to work in the parochial schools of the region. In 1911, they established their motherhouse in Chicago, where there was a large Lithuanian population. They began to staff schools in ...
St. Casimir's was established as a parish in 1902, becoming an independent parish in 1904. It was established to serve the needs of the growing Polish American community in Baltimore. The church building was built and dedicated in 1927.
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery of the Archdiocese of Chicago, located in the village of Alsip, Illinois, in Worth Township, southwest of Chicago. It was the first cemetery in the archdiocese to open post World War 1, after Mt. Olivet cemetery began to run out of space.