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Mount Carmel (Hillside)
Mount Carmel was consecrated in 1901, spans 214 acres and has over 238,000 interments (as of 12/31/22). Up until 1965, the Cemetery maintained its own office, then combined operations with Queen of Heaven Cemetery across the street. The office for Mt. Carmel is located at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside. Many of the remains at the Cemetery are people of Italian ancestry. There are over 400 individual family mausoleums, reflecting the burial tradition of many of the Italian Catholic families served by the Cemetery. Hundreds of headstones and monuments are adorned with statues and elaborate engravings of religious figures such as Jesus, crosses, the Blessed Mother, angels, and saints. Several monuments contain photographs of the buried deceased, another custom commonly found in Italian cemeteries. THE BISHOP’S MAUSOLEUM The Mausoleum and Chapel of the Archbishops of Chicago, informally known as the Bishop’s Mausoleum, is the final resting place of the Bishops and Archbishops of Chicago. The structure serves as the focal point of the entire Cemetery, situated on high ground. The Mausoleum was commissioned by Archbishop James Quigley in 1905 and was completed in 1912. The architect was William J. Brinkmann, who was known for designing Chicago area churches, was one of the architects involved in designing Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica. He also designed exhibits for the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, homes for political and industrial notables, and some of the earliest large steel frame buildings in the United States. The structure is constructed in Bedford limestone and follows the Romanesque Classical design. Atop the roof is a bronze statue of the Archangel Gabriel, sounding the trumpet at the moment of the final Resurrection. Above the Mausoleum’s entrance is engraved the single word, “Resurrecturis”- to those who will rise again. The interior of the Mausoleum was designed by one of the foremost religious architects of the time, Aristide Leonori, who was known for designing several churches and religious structures in Rome, Cairo, and the United States. Leonori relied heavily on the use of marble and mosaic to give the chapel its Romanesque look. The saints portrayed in the mosaics reference the Celtic, Nordic, Slavic, and Latin, reflecting the Archdiocese’s many ethnic groups and national churches. The Mausoleum is the final resting place of Bishop William J. Quarter, Archbishop Patrick Feehan, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, Cardinal John Cody, Bishop James Duggan.
Queen of Heaven
Queen of Heaven Cemetery represents the first of the “modern” cemeteries in the Archdiocese of Chicago. These sacred cemetery grounds were consecrated in 1947 and span 470 acres. The Cemetery has over 200,000 interments (as of 12/31/22). Queen of Heaven is home to the largest Catholic Mausoleum in the world. The Cemetery also features the Cremation Garden of St. Gabriel (the second cremation garden in the Archdiocese of Chicago) as well as outdoor crypt complexes: Christ the King, Crucifixion Garden Crypts, and Resurrection Garden Crypts, which feature outdoor above-ground burial spaces for full-body and cremated remains. QUEEN OF HEAVEN COMMUNITY MAUSOLEUM The Mausoleum at Queen of Heaven Cemetery was the first of its kind in the Chicagoland area, it is also the world’s largest Catholic Mausoleum. The Mausoleum itself is three stores tall and comprises three buildings, all physically connected: Queen of Heaven, Queen of Angels, and Queen of All Saints. The Mausoleum opened in three stages: Queen of Heaven, with approximately 6,900 crypts, in 1957Queen of Angels, with approximately 8,500 crypts in 1960Queen of All Saints, with approximately 15,000 crypts in 1964 The Mausoleum complex sits on approximately 3 acres of land and accommodates approximately 31,000 crypts for full-size entombments and over 900 niches for cremated remains. The Mausoleum serves as one of the world’s great museums of religious art by containing 92 first class relics, 227 stained glass windows, 60 marble statues, intricate mosaics, exotic hardwoods and 125 types of marble. There are over 200 scriptural quotations hand painted on the walls throughout the Mausoleum. The artwork was created by an array of local and international artists, including a few from the Chicagoland area, Italy, and Ireland, among others. The central feature of the Mausoleum is Our Lady’s Chapel, which at first glance may look like a regular chapel, but flanking the sides of the chapel are glass front niches for cremated remains and crypts along the side walls. This style of entombment echoes early Christian traditions, when it was believed that the closer to the altar you were laid to rest, the easier it would be to get into Heaven.