7200 Archer Road
Justice, Illinois
Established 1907

Resurrection Cemetery is a large Catholic cemetery in the southwest suburbs, adjacent to Bethania on Archer Avenue. The older sections have stones dating back to the 1890s, but most burials there are more recent.

A saint holds a child atop the monument of Antoni and Maryanna Martin (1918, 1919).

The cemetery is very modern, dominated by a huge mausoleum, an outdoor garden mausoleum, and numerous "shrine sections" where a central figure of a religious theme is surrounded by flat markers.

Even in the older sections, there is little variety. Some of the literature available indicates that there is currently a committee that approves choices of marker as affirming "the deceased's belief in the Resurrection". Apparently such policies have existed since the beginning, because there are only a few designs of stones, used repeatedly.

The most common monument is a narrow pedestal, 5-7 feet tall, topped with a cross, or, less frequently, a saint. Monuments in the shape of trees are often seen as well. I did not see a single obelisk - a pagan symbol that is permitted in most other Catholic cemeteries.

Resurrection Cemetery is world-famous as the home of the ghostly "Resurrection Mary".

 

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