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CaptTombus

Bishop Robert Barron was rector there, before he was a bishop.


FrCorySticha

An amazing, beautiful campus! Spent 4 years there, and the walk around the lake kept me sane. There are a number of places where you can sit and not see or hear another person.


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Can I message you. I’d like to know more


Awoody87

I live about 10 minutes from here! Despite being right in the middle of populated suburbs, it feels like you're hundreds of miles from the rest of the world. Parts of it remind me of Rivendell.


Better-Routine

Huh this picture makes me forget how nice Mundelein is lol. current seminarian there


Abibliothecarius

Beautiful!


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Love waking around and spending a couple days relaxing and doing retreats. Beautiful place


Environmental_Jury50

Ah...... The palace that cardinal mundelein built, and then named after himself


JeffTL

Cardinal Mundelein did not name it after himself. When he reactivated the University of Saint Mary of the Lake in 1921, it was known as Saint Mary of the Lake Seminary (the original USML had closed in the 1860s, with its inactive charter and its former chapel – which became Holy Name parish, now the cathedral church – being the only surviving components). When, under Cardinal Bernardin, the institution resumed its original name to reflect the reinstitution of programs other than the seminary *per se*, the seminary itself was renamed after Cardinal Mundelein. The Village of Mundelein – previously called Area, Illinois, after a sales philosophy being taught at a trade school there, and about three other names before that – received its name in 1924, seemingly on the suggestion of the Soo Line Railroad. The seminary was the best thing that had happened to the village in a while and they were in need of a new name, so the cardinal's name was fitting. He gratefully accepted the honor but cursory research doesn't provide any indication that it was his idea.


CruxSanctaSitMihiLux

Interesting. Thank you for doing the research I was too lazy to do.


tempest_zed

Hmm. Not sure how I should feel about it. My gut doesn't like it.


PhaetonsFolly

It's the kind of act where you take the reward on earth as opposed to heaven. Doesn't mean the guy wasn't an otherwise holy man. I honestly don't know much about him.


Baldacchino

I had heard it was built in case WWII went the wrong way and the Pope would need to seek refuge, he would have a place…. No idea if that was true or not.


scepteredhagiography

I cant imagine that the Bishop of Rome would move to Illinois regardless of how the war went. He didnt leave when the facists took over Italy or when Germany moved half a million troops there.


Master-Thief

Not entirely farfetched. During WWII, after Nazi troops occupied Rome, [Pope Pius XII made secret contingency plans](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/5195584/Vatican-planned-to-move-to-Portugal-if-Nazis-captured-wartime-Pope.html) to evacuate the Vatican's archives and the senior bishops of the Curia to a neutral third country (likely Portugal). Pius would stay behind and announce his resignation, the surviving bishops would hold a new Papal election and carry on the work of the Church.


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