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The “granddaddy” of church festivals! A huge plate full of freshly cooked brisket and homemade sausage brings folks from far & wide. With two stages of live music and entertainment, horseshoe and washer tournaments, bingo, a Boardwalk for kids, a homemade quilt raffle, an old-fashioned Biergarten, and a huge silent auction, there’s something for every age here.
Over 135 years ago, a gathering of only a handful of St. Louis parish families and their friends met in Biediger’s river bottom near Castroville to celebrate the feast day of their patron saint, St. Louis IX of France, and the now famous and century-and-a-quarter-old St. Louis Day Celebration was born. That first picnic cost the parishioners just $25, and the entire tab was footed by the St. Louis Men’s Society of the parish. Needless to say, both the cost of putting on the festival and its attendance have swollen tremendously since its humble birth. For more information, visit saintlouisday.com.
