Holy Family (Diocese of Belleville, Cahokia)
| Holy Family | |
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| Dedication: | Holy Family |
| Type/Classification: | Territorial Parish |
| Non-Parochial: | No |
| Operated By: | Diocesan clergy |
| Venerated Saints: | None specified |
| Diocese: | Diocese of Belleville |
| Deanery: | |
| Address: | 116 Church St., Cahokia, Illinois 62206 |
| City: | Cahokia, IL |
| Subdivision: | Illinois |
| Country: | United States |
| County: | St. Clair County |
| Website: | Website |
| Founded: | 1893 |
| School: | No |
| Email: | None specified |
| AI Confidence: | 6/10 |
| Review Level: | 0/5 |
Holy Family Catholic Church is a territorial parish of the Diocese of Belleville, located in Cahokia, Illinois, within St. Clair County. The parish is dedicated to the Holy Family—Jesus, Mary, and Saint Joseph—a devotion honoring the domestic life of the Holy House of Nazareth.
Cahokia is among the oldest continuously settled communities in Illinois, having been established as a French colonial mission village at the close of the seventeenth century. The parish's own web address invokes the year 1699, a date long associated by local tradition with the earliest Catholic missionary presence among the Cahokia and Tamaroa peoples along the Mississippi River, though the parish as formally organized under the Diocese of Belleville is recorded with a founding date of 1893. Given the antiquity of Catholic worship in the area, available sources should be read with appropriate caution regarding which specific institutional dates refer to the original mission, to the log church tradition long associated with Cahokia, and to the present-day territorial parish.
As a territorial parish, Holy Family serves Catholics residing within its assigned geographic boundaries in and around Cahokia, a small city situated in the American Bottom floodplain across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri.
History
According to the parish's own online presence, Holy Family traces a spiritual lineage to the earliest French Catholic missionary activity in the Cahokia area, a claim reflected in the parish website's domain name referencing the year 1699.[1] Cahokia was one of the first permanent European settlements in what is now Illinois, and Catholic missionary priests ministered to French settlers and Native American communities there from the late seventeenth century onward.
The parish is presently organized under the Diocese of Belleville.[2] Diocesan records associate the parish's formal establishment, or a significant reorganization of the congregation, with the year 1893. No confirmed, detailed narrative of the intervening centuries is documented in the sources available for this article, and readers should consult diocesan archives or local historical societies for a fuller account of the congregation's continuous history from the colonial period to the present.
A distinct historic structure long associated with Cahokia's Catholic community, commonly known locally as the Holy Family Log Church, is treated separately within diocesan and historical records and is not to be conflated with the present territorial parish described here.
Special features
- A parish community rooted in one of the oldest sites of continuous Catholic presence in Illinois
- Devotion to the Holy Family as a model of domestic and parish life
Relics
According to established Catholic tradition, the main altar of a dedicated parish church customarily contains relics of one or more saints. No specific, publicly documented information regarding relics held at Holy Family Church is available in the sources consulted for this article.
Architecture and Art
Exterior features
No detailed, publicly documented description of the present church building's exterior architecture is available in the sources consulted for this article.
Interior features
No detailed, publicly documented description of the church's interior arrangement is available in the sources consulted for this article.
Stained Glass Windows
Specific information on the church's stained glass windows is not publicly documented in available sources.
Statues and Sculptures
Specific information on statuary at Holy Family Church is not publicly documented in available sources.
Other Artwork
No further devotional artwork is publicly documented in available sources.
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External links
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References
- ↑ "Holy Family Catholic Church". Holy Family Catholic Church, Cahokia, Illinois. http://holyfamily1699.org.
- ↑ "Diocese of Belleville". Roman Catholic Diocese of Belleville. https://www.diobelle.org/.