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Holy Cross Cemetery served as the primary for Halifax Catholics until 1896, and although interments continued through the twentieth-century the site had fallen into disrepair by 2005. [1] The Holy Cross Cemetery Trust was established in 2006, [ 1 ] and a program of restoration and beautification by volunteers has been in progress since 2008 ...
A small number of burials were moved from St. Peter's/St. Mary's to be reburied at the Holy Cross Cemetery. [3] Air photographs show some stone markers remained in the cemetery until the 1920s. The cemetery was paved over in the 1950s to serve as a parking lot. The markers were buried, although a few may have been moved to the Holy Cross Cemetery.
Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax. Burial site for Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, Prime Minister of Canada; Mount Olivet Cemetery, Halifax. Nineteen victims of the sinking of RMS Titanic are buried here. Nictaux Community Centre Cemetery, Nictaux, The oldest cemetery in Nictaux, with soldiers from the Siege of Quebec
St. Michael's Cemetery opened in 1855 as a larger and stand alone burial grounds. [4] Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery was opened to relieve St. Michael's in 1900 and was the last to be located within Toronto. Holy Cross is responsible for St. Luke's Roman Catholic Cemetery c. 1846.
The Holy Cross Church, a Spanish-Colonial, adobe edifice dominates the west side. The ‘’Ortega House’’, a relatively large, contributing, New Mexico Vernacular building is on the south. To the east are three noncontributing dwellings and on the north three noncontributing buildings.
The foundations of the rectangular chapel of the Holy Cross building has a prominent grave recess cut out of it in front of the chapel's former altar. The grave, 2m long by between 0.35m-0.53m wide, was recessed at its sides to allow for a covering slab to be laid flush with the floor level as was the fashion with important burials at that time ...
Heart-burial is a type of burial in which the heart is interred apart from the body. In medieval Europe heart-burial was fairly common among the higher echelons of society, as was the parallel practice of the separate burial of entrails or wider viscera : examples can be traced back to the beginning of the twelfth century. [ 1 ]
The cemetery is home to the Chapel of St. James-the-Less, which sits atop a knoll at the highest point of the cemetery. In its harmonious composition, this small funeral chapel is a splendid example of Victorian Gothic design. Its sense of strength and spirituality is derived from the subtle contrast of its stone walls, enveloping roofs, and ...