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Three million people have been buried in the Calvary Cemetery since its establishment in 1848. It contains the largest number of burials of any U.S. cemetery.
I hope you will enjoy a repost of one of my first Queenswalks. Next week will be brand new. A trip from Brooklyn to Queens across that semi-movable parking lot known as the Brooklyn Queens Expressway ...
In terms of interments, Calvary Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the United States. With three million, the dead outnumber the 2.2 million living in Queens. But Calvary is more about sheer expanse.
A new memorial stone in Yakima’s Calvary Catholic Cemetery meant to “stir quiet reflection and prayer” for clergy sex abuse victims has prompted criticism from statewide victims advocates.
Melendez has now been added to the Diocese of Brooklyn’s List of Credibly Accused Priests, which includes 119 clergy members.. This announcement comes after a recent settlement between the Diocese and ...
All 186 Catholic parishes in the Diocese of Brooklyn were shuttered at noon Friday by the coronavirus crisis, with a moratorium declared on funerals, weddings and baptisms for the faithful. The dio… ...
A half-century later, in 2020, Wilkinson retired with plenty of photographs and 50 years’ worth of stories, written and remembered. His friends and colleagues urged him to write a book — and, finally, ...
A trip from Brooklyn to Queens across that semi-movable parking lot known as the Brooklyn Queens Expressway will always take you over a vast expanse of the land of the dead, ... This is Calvary ...
An internal investigation by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn has found credible three allegations of sexual abuse of a minor by a former priest and teacher at a Queens high school, the ...