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[2]: 1–40 View of St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 showing the street-like layout of the tombs. In 1788, a yellow fever epidemic struck New Orleans. This epidemic, in addition to the proximity of the St. Peter Street Cemetery and the high water table for in-ground burials, created a sanitation problem for disposing of the dead.
St. Roch is a neighborhood of the U.S. city of New Orleans.A subdistrict of the Bywater District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Lafreniere Street, Paris Avenue, I-610, Benefit Street, and Dahlia Walk to the north; People's and Almonaster Avenues to the east; St. Claude Avenue to the south; Elysian Fields Avenue, Hope, Frenchmen, Duels, St. Anthony ...
Saint Roch Cemetery (French: Cimetière Saint-Roch) is the first municipal cemetery in the city of Grenoble, France. It was blessed by the bishop of Grenoble Claude Simon on 19 August 1810. [1] It is the largest cemetery in the city with 13 ha (32.12 acres).
The Church of St. Roch is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 602 Port Richmond Avenue, Staten Island, New York City. It was established in 1922. It is sometimes confused with St. Roch's Church St. in the Bronx, which was established in 1899. [1]
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Roch (lived c. 1348 – 15/16 August 1376/79; traditionally c. 1295 – 16 August 1327), [a] also called Rock in English, was a Majorcan Catholic confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he was especially invoked against the plague.
It is home to the Église Saint Roch, a Roman Catholic church named for Saint Roch. [1] [2] It is also home to the Mazargues Commonwealth War Cemetery, which includes 1,487 burials of casualties from World War I and 267 burials of casualties from the Second World War. [3]
San Roque Parish Church, also known as Saint Roch Parish Church and Lemery Church, is a Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Lemery, Batangas, in the Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Lipa .