Holy Cross Cemetery ( Spanish : Cementerio de la Santa Cruz ) is a Catholic cemetery in Colma, California , operated by the Archdiocese of San Francisco . Established in 1887 on 300 acres (1.2 km ), it is one of the oldest and largest cemeteries in California .
14-1810: Holy Cross Cemetery may refer to: United States [ edit ] California [ edit ] Holy Cross Cemetery (Colma, California) Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City , California Holy Cross Cemetery (Menlo Park, California) Holy Cross Cemetery (Pomona, California) Holy Cross Cemetery (San Diego) , Chollas View neighborhood, San Diego, California Illinois [ edit ] Holy Cross Cemetery, Calumet City , Illinois Massachusetts [ edit ] Holy Cross Cemetery (Malden, Massachusetts) Michigan [ edit ] Holy Cross Cemetery, Detroit , Michigan Montana [ edit ] Holy Cross Cemetery (Broadwater County, Montana) Holy Cross Cemetery (Silver Bow County, Montana) Holy Cross Cemetery (Yellowstone County, Montana) New Jersey [ edit ] Holy Cross Cemetery (North Arlington, New Jersey) New York [ edit ] Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn , New York, New York Holy Cross Cemetery, Lackawanna , New York Ohio [ edit ] Holy Cross Cemetery (Brook Park, Ohio) [ Wikidata ] Pennsylvania [ edit ] Holy Cross Cemetery, Harrisburg , Pennsylvania Holy Cross Cemetery (Yeadon, Pennsylvania) Virginia [ edit ] Holy Cross Cemetery, Lynchburg , Virginia Wisconsin [ edit ] Holy Cross Cemetery (Milwaukee) , Wisconsin Canada [ edit ] Holy Cross Cemetery (Edmonton) , Alberta, Canada Holy Cross Cemetery (Halifax, Nova Scotia) , Canada Holy Cross Cemetery , Thornhill, Ontario , Canada Elsewhere [ edit ] Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery ,
28-704: A Grave Holy Cross Cemetery Holy Cross Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery located at 14611 Mark Messier Trail NW in Edmonton , Alberta, Canada. The cemetery is owned and operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton and was opened by the archdiocese in 1954. Notable interments [ edit ] Johnny Bright (1930–1983), Canadian Football League player Gord Hannigan (1929–1966), Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player (1952–56) William "Wild Bill" Hunter (1920–2002), hockey player, coach, and businessman. Founder of
42-788: A design by Frank and William Shea, across Mission from the main entrance to the cemetery (1595 Mission Road); they also designed the stone-topped cemetery entry gates. These structures feature sandstone fascia in the Richardsonian Romanesque Revival style. It is nicknamed "McMahon's Station" after a hotel built by the brothers Owen and Patrick McMahon at the same site, which was destroyed by fire in January 1894, rebuilt, and destroyed again by fire in September 1897. Additional offices were completed in 1956, east of El Camino Real . The large mausoleum at Holy Cross
56-660: A garden court (outdoor mausoleum) near the north corner. After the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a measure in March 1900, banning future burials within city limits effective August 1, 1901, the development of Colma as the city's necropolis began in earnest, eventually culminating in the eviction of the existing cemeteries. Many of the people interred at the Catholic Calvary Cemetery were reburied between 1937 and 1945 at Holy Cross in
70-592: A private cemetery in Cape Collinson, Hong Kong Žale , formerly known as Holy Cross Cemetery, in Ljubljana, Slovenia Holy Cross Cemetery, Berlin-Mariendorf , Germany Holy Cross Cemetery (Salta) , Argentina; Spanish : Cementerio de la Santa Cruz Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Holy Cross Cemetery . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
84-529: A project to relocate graves outside of the city. There is a memorial sculpture at Holy Cross erected in 1993 to mark the moved remains, which features three crosses and reads: "Interred here are the remains of 39,307 Catholics moved from Mt. Calvary Cemetery in 1940 and 1941 by order of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Rest in God's Loving Care." After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , it
98-1554: The California Gold Rush . This cemetery also contains one British Commonwealth war grave , of a Canadian Infantry soldier of World War I . Holy Cross Cemetery (Edmonton) Coordinates : 53°36′30″N 113°34′58″W / 53.60833°N 113.58278°W / 53.60833; -113.58278 Roman Catholic cemetery in Alberta, Canada For other uses, see Holy Cross Cemetery (disambiguation) . [REDACTED] This article does not cite any sources . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . Find sources: "Holy Cross Cemetery" Edmonton – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( January 2017 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Holy Cross Cemetery [REDACTED] Details Established 1954 Location Edmonton , Alberta, Canada Country [REDACTED] Canada Coordinates 53°36′30″N 113°34′58″W / 53.60833°N 113.58278°W / 53.60833; -113.58278 Type Roman Catholic Owned by Edmonton Archdiocese Size 45 acres (0.18 km ) No. of graves >15,000 Website Holy Cross Cemetery Find
112-842: The NHL Edmonton Oilers Joseph MacNeil (1924–2018), archbishop of the Archdiocese of Edmonton (1973–1999) Rollie Miles (1927–1995), Canadian Football League player (1951–1961), educator Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Holy_Cross_Cemetery_(Edmonton)&oldid=1146321988 " Categories : Cemeteries in Alberta Roman Catholic cemeteries in Canada Buildings and structures in Edmonton Cemeteries established in
126-602: The first cemetery in Colma. The first burials were conducted on June 7; Timothy Buckley's funeral carriage arrived just before Elizabeth Martin's. That year, the Southern Pacific Railroad completed a branch track to Holy Cross. The Holy Cross site was deliberately left unconsecrated because of the possibility the cemetery may be relocated again. The site now covers 283 acres (115 ha). The Old Lodge Building, used as offices, were completed in 1902 to
140-610: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Holy_Cross_Cemetery&oldid=1254157579 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Pages using interlanguage link with the wikidata parameter Articles containing Spanish-language text Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Holy Cross Cemetery (Colma, California) Calvary Cemetery in San Francisco
154-652: The same site, completed in 1914. Two of the cemetery sequences from the film Harold and Maude , in which Harold attends the funerals of strangers and meets Maude, were filmed at Holy Cross in Sections T and J; the Mausoleum and Hillside Boulevard gate also appear in the film. Additional sequences were filmed at nearby cemeteries in Colma and San Bruno, including Cypress Lawn , Woodlawn , and Golden Gate National Cemetery . Several notable people are buried at Holy Cross, including former politicians, and people of
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#1732776011988168-410: Was consecrated in 1860 by the first Archbishop of San Francisco , Joseph Sadoc Alemany . Nearly thirty years later, Cavalry had nearly reached its capacity and Alemany's successor, Patrick William Riordan , purchased 179 acres (72 ha) of land in nearby San Mateo County . Alemany's successor, Patrick William Riordan , blessed the initial 25-acre (10 ha) Holy Cross site on June 3, 1887, as
182-445: Was designed by John McQuarrie and dedicated on March 28, 1921 by Archbishop Edward Joseph Hanna . It has been expanded since its opening and contains room for 40,000 crypts, covering 9 acres (3.6 ha). The Archbishops of San Francisco are interred in crypts within the mausoleum's rotunda. There are two smaller mausoleums on the site: All Saints, in the property's south corner (near Lawndale and Mission) and Saints Peter and Paul,
196-471: Was estimated that 3 ⁄ 4 of the monuments at Holy Cross were toppled or thrown askew, including large ornamental stone balls atop the entry gates. The subsequent 1957 Daly City earthquake damaged the cemetery again. A Googie -styled circular Receiving Chapel complex was designed by Frank W. Trabucco and completed in 1963; it contains five separate chapels, each decorated with murals by Thomas Lawless. The current chapel replaced an older chapel at
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