Saint Adalbert Catholic Cemetery
Niles, IL U.S.A.
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Katyn Monument

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2007 - Polish President Lech Kaczynski and wife at dedication ceremony 2007 - Wojciech Seweryn and Polish Cardinal Glemp at dedication ceremony 2010 - Photo of Seweryn killed with President Kaczynski and 94 others in air crash at Smolensk 2011 - Polish Mayor Riszard Scigala of Tarnow presents a plaque honoring Seweryn 2011 - Portion of Milwaukee Avenue is given the title Wojciech Seweryn Memorial Road

Resurrectionists' Mausoleum

2008 Louis Zajdel reading inscriptions, 2008 2008 2008 2008

Among the 300,000 Interrments...

Examples of gravestones fashioned to follow the old Polish tradition of marking graves with logs or wooden crosses Example of gravestone fashioned to follow the old Polish tradition of marking graves with logs or wooden crosses Another example of a gravestone fashioned to follow the old Polish tradition of marking graves with logs or wooden crosses
Halas Mausoleum - final resting place of George Stanley Halas co-founder of the National Football League and owner of the Chicago Bears Kurtyka Family Monument And I always thought Dracula was a Romanian


Saint Adalbert Catholic Cemetery was founded in 1872 when a group composed of individuals from several Slavic parishes in Chicago selected the site and purchased the land. Poles, Czechs, Moravians, and Slovaks welcomed the prospect of having their own dignified place for Christian burial. Today, with over 300,000 interrments across more than 255 acres, Saint Adalbert has grown to be the largest of the forty-three Catholic cemeteries in the Archdiocese of Chicago.

Alas, all was not perfect in paradise. When a Catholic priest (reportedly the pastor of Saint James Parish on DeKoven Street) refused to allow the burial of Maria Silhanek in consecrated soil in 1876, some members of the Czech community became upset. Led by Frank Zdrubek who was editor of Chicago's Czech-language newspaper and a member of the Bohemian Freethinkers' Society, a group purchased 122 acres of land for Bohemian National Cemetery in 1877. Bohemian National Cemetery still remains a secular, non-denominational cemetery today.



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