Photos of Church and Convent in Ruma, Illinois

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.



The church's old one-room schoolhouse. To the right and back are modern school buildings.



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.



Graves of the Martyrs of Ruma, five Sisters who were executed in Liberia in 1992.