Saint Michael in the Catholic Church Lord kindly bless this incense and accept it as a savour of sweetness). Until Pope John XXIII revised it in 1960, the General Roman Calendar had not one but two feasts of Saint Michael, one on 29 September, the other on 8 May. Michael the Archangel is the patron saint of grocers, mariners, paratroopers, police officers, and military members. A large number of Roman Catholic churches around the globe are dedicated to Saint Michael, from Hammerfest, Norway to Oeste Catarinense in Brazil. Saint Michael's feast day of September 29 has been solemnly celebrated in many locations since the fifth century.
Central Grocers Cooperative Central Grocers Cooperative Central Grocers Cooperative, founded in 1917 as Central Wholesale Grocers, was a retailers' cooperative based in Joliet, Illinois, near Chicago. It distributed both brand name and private label goods branded as "Centrella" and "Silver Cup Value Buy" to about 400 member-owner grocery stores in Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. It supplied several grocery stores in Indiana and Illinois, including Strack & Van Til (acquired in 1998), Town & Country, Key Market, and Ultra Foods. It also purchased a number of former Cub Foods locations in the Chicago area, some of which it operated as Strack and Van