Sat, Mar 01
|Aurora
Aurora Highlights
Three in The City of Lights
Date, Time, & Location
Mar 01, 2025, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Aurora, Aurora, IL, USA
About the Event
Learn about Aurora, IL,"The City of Lights", as we highlight three beautiful, and richly different, churches. One, on the colloquially named "Pigeon Hill", one near the "Big Woods" and another who's history straddles the famed Fox river.
Included will be St. Michael's, which was built for worship and kinship by immigrents with Transylvanian origins. It a Byzantine Romanesque structure containing icons and ancient ritual. St Mary's, is not to be missed, with it's meditative Zettler windows - nor is the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, a small stone frontier German built Gothic.
Your guide will meet out at the first church and stay with you throughout the tour to provide informative context, and thematic continuity.
Because sacred spaces are not market places, all are welcome to come without cost. Please sign up on our wait list so we might work to accomodate you. Our growing collaboration with organizations and volunteers in several states, ongoing research, preparation and promotion requires funding, so thank you for taking that into consideration!
Meet at: St Michael Romanian Catholic Church:
Fun Fact: The St Michael Romanian Catholic Church in Aurora is under the jurisdiction of the Eparchy of Canton, OH
Participants must register in advance. Transportation is not included with this tour. Free parking.
Would you like to take this tour, or a similar one, on another date? We tour other churches in the Aurora area.
Just call! 312-869-2286. Minimum group size 5; maximum size varies.
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$Wait List: Aurora Highlights
Sacred spaces are NOT marketplaces; all are welcome. At times, fellow travelers supply resources that allow us to provide reduced cost or free participation. Registering here indicates you would like to be included and we can contact you about any such opportunities. It does not guarantee participation or availability since all transportation, museum entrance and other fees may be necessary for attendance.
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