Calvary
Calvary Cemetery, at 5239 W. Florissant Avenue, is a 477-acre (1.9 km²) Roman Catholic cemetery established in 1857. It is the burial place for several members of the Chouteau family, co-founders of the city of St. Louis. Their descendants were invited to be part of the ceremony marking the Louisiana Purchase. Some of the old burials and tombstones were transferred to Calvary Cemetery from much older Catholic cemeteries. These were originally established in what is now the downtown area of the city near the Old Cathedral and the Mississippi River.
Read more about this topic: Bellefontaine And Calvary Cemeteries
Famous quotes containing the word calvary:
“shows its berries red
In token of the drops of blood
Which on Calvary were shed.”
—Unknown. The Holly and the Ivy (l. 10–12)