Christmas season would have featured Mary and the Child Jesus; Lent, Jesus on the Cross; and Easter, the Resurrected Savior. The hand-carved altar rails, now removed, had portrayed The Passion of the Christ through such powerful symbols as palm, snake, wheat, fish, bread baskets, money bags, chalice, reed and rooster. Several of the other stained glass windows commemorate Polish Saints and writers, while the angels painted along the nave walls carry the crests of cities in Poland where the immigrants hailed from. The small altars along the east and west walls were carved by former parishioner Jan Wellnitz, and were originally installed in the 1910 church located next door. While the former Cathedral of All Saints is often overshadowed by its more famous Roman Catholic sister churches such as the Basilica of St. Hyacinth, it is nonetheless highly regarded as a beautiful specimen of Chicago's historic church architecture. The church was featured in the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois annual tour of Chicago's historic churches and synagogues, and the site of a lecture delivered by historian Dominic Pacyga as well as Vincent Michael the director of Chicago Programs at the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois on its behalf. The Curt Teich Postcard Archives at the Lake County Discovery Museum in Wauconda has among its collection a postcard of the church interior dating from the early 1940s. See also Polish Cathedral style churches of Chicago Polish American Poles in Chicago Roman Catholicism in Poland Notes and references Bibliography External links official website of Covenant Presbyterian Church, the church's current congregation official website of the Western Diocese of the Polish National Catholic Church, of which All Saints' Parish is the cathedral Religious organizations established in 1895 Churches in Chicago Presbyterian Church in America churches in Illinois Polish-American culture in Chicago History of Catholicism in the United States Former cathedrals in the United States Former churches in Illinois Polish Cathedral style architecture Polish National Catholic Church Presbyterian churches in Illinois 1895 establishments in Illinois