Cemetery Tour: All Saints

Some of the most beautiful and meaningful art is most poignantly expressed in cemeteries. Both nature and human craft are there bent to bear solemn witness to lofty lessons of mortality, faith, and love.

Visitors who enter All Saints Catholic Cemetery on its curving lanes are duly impressed with its sheer scale. It reaches over 257 acres in a park-style well tended landscape. Your Catholic Church Tours guide knows his way around these acres! Through funerary ministries and extensive publishing, he has developed a unique understanding of mourning rituals, this cemetery’s textured history and the cohesiveness of its notable features.  

In addition to the particular plots of more than 132,000 burials, notable areas include:

• The first Interment Chapel in the Archdiocese of Chicago Cemetery system.

• The expansive Community Mausoleum, a flared wall edifice replete with massive dalle de verre windows.

• The Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Marian Shrines.