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For 147 years, Fenton has shown up for St. Paul Catholic Church. Now the parish's Queen of Hearts jackpot is past $84,000, and only three cards remain.
Four Queens, a $611,162 jackpot and more than $1.15 million in tickets later, the work Assumption's raffle has been raising money for is going in.
Founded in 1931 in an orphanage's wooden outbuildings on South Grand, St. Mary's was marked for closure in 2022. Three years later the school owns its campus, and its alumni Queen of Hearts jackpot is knocking on $100,000.
Fifty thousand people came to the Dome on Thursday for the first beatification ever held in St. Louis. Volunteers around the country had made a rosary for every one of them.
The all-girls school in south St. Louis has grown its Fall Festival Mega Raffle every single year — from $60,000 in 2020 to $128,000 last year.
When Bloomsdale's pastor held the winning ticket, he didn't buy a new car or book a trip. He funded a beautiful restoration of his parish church — carried out by the hands of his own parishioners.
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A 1917 Packard bought out of a junkyard for $325, a firehouse paid for in wine, an ambulance district that ran on collection jars: how neighbors around St. Louis built their own emergency services before 911
Caledonia has 131 residents. For the 25th year, it threw a pumpkin festival with a parade, more than 100 craft vendors and a shuttle to the corn maze. How a Washington County village older than the state of Missouri keeps finding reasons to celebrate.
Before refrigerators, a fall day at the kettle turned a cellar of apples into a winter's worth of apple butter and a yard full of neighbors into a party. How Missouri became the country's apple state, how the Red Delicious got its name in Louisiana, Missouri, and where you can take a turn at the paddle this weekend.
Route 66 turns 100 this year. From a 1923 bridge on the Big Piney to a mile-long bend over the Mississippi, with a stop for barbecue and a frozen custard handed to you upside down, here is the Missouri stretch the highway left behind.
A widow's gift of two city blocks, a Bohemian parish, a tornado and a city plan that called for bulldozers. Soulard outlasted all of it, and then it threw a party.
Walk out to the tip of the point north of St. Louis and a question answers itself: why is this city here? The rivers have been answering it since 1764.
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In 1955 St. Louis Catholics asked a Yorkshire abbey for monks to run a school for their sons. Three came, with no students, no classrooms and no playing fields. Seven decades later the monastery and school they started still stand on Mason Road.
In 1920, two young veterans filled All Saints Hall and named a new Legion post for a St. Peters sailor lost at sea. More than a century later, Post 313 still carries his name.
Muskets at a Florissant altar in 1825, a German procession that has not missed a June since 1878, bread for St. Joseph on The Hill, mariachi for Guadalupe and the Dogtown parade: The Feast Days and Festivals of the Communities that Built Saint Louis
Forty years before Laclède landed, French miners were digging lead in the hills off Highway 21. Their descendants still speak the language, and this Sunday they open the village.
No city hall, no mayor, and more than 200 years of neighbors building things together: a road, a parish, a fire department and a ballfield.
How Irish settlers, two country churches, and a new highway came together as one parish family in House Springs — and why its bell tower rings with three voices.
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A 1917 Packard bought out of a junkyard for $325, a firehouse paid for in wine, an ambulance district that ran on collection jars: how neighbors around St. Louis built their own emergency services before 911
Caledonia has 131 residents. For the 25th year, it threw a pumpkin festival with a parade, more than 100 craft vendors and a shuttle to the corn maze. How a Washington County village older than the state of Missouri keeps finding reasons to celebrate.
Before refrigerators, a fall day at the kettle turned a cellar of apples into a winter's worth of apple butter and a yard full of neighbors into a party. How Missouri became the country's apple state, how the Red Delicious got its name in Louisiana, Missouri, and where you can take a turn at the paddle this weekend.
Route 66 turns 100 this year. From a 1923 bridge on the Big Piney to a mile-long bend over the Mississippi, with a stop for barbecue and a frozen custard handed to you upside down, here is the Missouri stretch the highway left behind.
A widow's gift of two city blocks, a Bohemian parish, a tornado and a city plan that called for bulldozers. Soulard outlasted all of it, and then it threw a party.
Walk out to the tip of the point north of St. Louis and a question answers itself: why is this city here? The rivers have been answering it since 1764.
Near Lawson, Missouri, one family's farm grew into a mill town all its own — home to the only 19th-century textile mill in America with its original machinery still in place.
Every August, the streets of historic Ste. Genevieve come alive as thousands of visitors gather for....