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Saint Patrick Church, in Ruma, Illinois, a village in Randolph County. The parish dates from either 1818 or 1827, and is the oldest existing English-language parish in Illinois.
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The church's old one-room schoolhouse. To the right and back are modern school buildings.
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Near the church are the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, a women's religious order, who came to Ruma in 1879. This building is now used for nursing elderly nuns.
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Graves of the Martyrs of Ruma, five Sisters who were executed in Liberia in 1992.
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