Students trade Halloween costumes for religious ones
The morning after Halloween, students from St. James School in Arlington Heights came dressed to church still in costumes, but of a different sort.
First-graders processed down the church aisle dressed as their favorite Catholic saints for an all-school All Saints Day Mass.
The Nov. 1 liturgical feast honors all saints, canonized and unknown. All Saints Day is celebrated by many major Christian denominations.
Katelyn Beckmann, right, portrays St. Catherine Laboure and Avery Delany, far left, is dressed as St. Elizabeth Ann Seton as first-graders await the processional of the All Saints Day Mass at St. James Catholic Church in Arlington Heights Friday.
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First-grader Colin McLeod portrays St. Patrick on Friday during the All Saints Day Mass at St. James Catholic Church in Arlington Heights.
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