National Day of Remembrance Prayer Services in Hillside, Romeoville, and Evergreen Park

Contact: Tom Ciesielka, TC Public Relations, 312-422-1333, tc@tcpr.net

MEDIA ADVISORY, Sept. 11, 2014 /Christian Newswire/ -- Cardinal Francis George is among those speaking Saturday at Hillside's Queen of Heaven Cemetery, one of three Chicago area prayer services on The National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children. On September 13, 2014, mourners across the country will visit the gravesites of aborted children, whose broken bodies were recovered from trash dumpsters and pathology labs and solemnly buried over the four decades of legal abortion in the United States.

WHAT: National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children in the Chicago area

WHEN: Saturday, September 13, 2014

WHERE:

• QUEEN OF HEAVEN CEMETERY, 2 p.m.
  1400 S. Wolf Rd, Hillside MAP: goo.gl/maps/QrsHl
  GUEST SPEAKERS: Cardinal Francis George, Ann Scheidler, John Morales, Mary Griffith
   
• RESURRECTION CEMETERY, 1 p.m.
  200 W. Romeo Rd, Romeoville MAP: goo.gl/maps/W4WzL
  GUEST SPEAKER: Bishop Joseph Siegel
   
• ST. MARY CEMETERY, 2 p.m.
  87th St and Hamlin Ave, Evergreen Park MAP: goo.gl/maps/iz9rn
  GUEST SPEAKERS: Bishop Joseph Perry, Father Stephen Lesniewski, Pastor Doug Semenske, Nancy Kreuzer

WHO: All who wish to mourn the deaths of pre-born children by abortion

MORE INFORMATION: AbortionMemorials.com

MEDIA CONTACT: Tom Ciesielka, tc@tcpr.net, 312.422.1333

Under the direction of three national pro-life groups - Chicago-based Pro-life Action League, Citizens for a Pro-life Society, and Priests for Life - solemn services of remembrances will be held at more than a hundred such gravesites and memorials at churches and cemeteries across the country.

Eric Scheidler, Executive Director of the Pro-life Action League, stated, "It's sobering to realize that these babies were discarded like garbage, but they are our brothers and sisters. That's why we buried them, and that's why we mourn for them and testify to their humanity."

The first National Day of Remembrance was held last September on the 25th anniversary of the solemn burial of several hundred abortion victims in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Thousands of mourners participated in the National Day of Remembrance, now established as an annual event on the second Saturday each September.