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The National Shrine of Saint Jude, in Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in
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National Shrine of Saint Jude
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The National Shrine of Saint Jude, in Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Chicago, Illinois
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, is a shrine to one of Jesus
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' 12 apostles
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saint Saint Jude
Jude ( grc-gre, Ἰούδας Ἰακώβου translit. Ioúdas Iakóbou) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is generally identified as Thaddeus ( grc-gre, Θαδδαῖος; cop, ⲑⲁⲇⲇⲉⲟⲥ; ...
. It is a place of pilgrimage for Catholics in the United States and other countries, and is part of a parish served by the Claretians
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, who continue to maintain the Shrine.
History
In 1923 a larger number of Mexican workers were brought to South Chicago from Fort Worth, Texas by Illinois Steel. The mission chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe was founded by Father William T. Kane, SJ. When Kane retired for health reasons shortly thereafter, Cardinal George Mundelein entrusted the mission to the Claretians in 1924. The national shrine of St. Jude was founded by Father James Tort, C.M.F., pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church inChicago
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, Illinois
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, United States
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. Father Tort was born in Barcelona and had served in the Canary Islands and Mexico. He fled Mexico in 1914, and worked for a time in Texas and Arizona, before becoming pastor of the Guadalupe mission in 1927.
Many of Tort’s parishioners were laborers in the nearby steel mills, which were drastically cutting back their workforces early in 1929. This cutback was the precursor of the Stock Market crash."History of the Claretians and the National Shrine of St. Jude", National Shrine of St. Jude, Chicago, Illinois/ref> Tort was saddened to see that about 90% of his parishioners were without jobs and in difficult financial situations. Tort was devoted to Saint Jude Thaddeus. In an effort to lift the spirits of his parishioners, Tort began regular devotions to Saint Jude. The first
novena
A novena (from Latin: ''novem'', "nine") is an ancient tradition of devotional praying in Christianity, consisting of private or public prayers repeated for nine successive days or weeks. The nine days between the Feast of the Ascension and Pe ...
honoring the saint was held on February 17, 1929. During the Depression of the 1930s and World War II, thousands of men, women, and children attended novenas at the shrine and devotion to the patron saint of desperate causes spread throughout the country.Orsi, Robert A., ''Thank You, St. Jude: Womens Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes'', Yale University Press, 2014References
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National Shrine of Saint Jude
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