Thank you for posting the link to the video. St John's was my grandmother's church after they tore down St Stephen's; St John's was also the church my dad and I would go to for Sunday mass--AFTER I dropped off a token with a number on it in a token box at Santa Maria! SM students were required to "prove" they attended Sunday mass--or the Santa Maria nuns would scold you come Monday morni
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Yes!! I neglected Holy Innocents! And shame on me! My late mother went there through the 8th grade. She loved telling stories about the nuns, how they would smack kids around and how she had to scrub the wood floors. I guess the end of mom's time at H-I was when she told the Mother Superior she'd sooner wash the floors at home!. Mom and I visited H-I last in 2005..they did a beautiful job inside a
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thanks for the postcard view...it has a very close feeling of the ONE photo someone snapped of my parents when they were married at the Old St Stephen's back in 1939. The church was knocked down when I was real tiny. I ended up going to the old Santa Maria Adolorata (sp?) BEFORE IT WAS KNOCKED DOWN, and then to St John Cantius (STILL STANDING!!!). ST STEPHENS REMINDS ME OF ST COLUMBKILL (horrible
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St Stephen's Church was one of those bulldozed to make way for the Kennedy Expressway back in the 1950's, around Grand & east of Ogden. Does anyone know where to find exterior/interior photo's? I've tried the Diocese, google..I live in Memphis, so the Main Library in Chicago is a tad difficult. Thanks!
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