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Calvary Cemetery (St. Paul, Minnesota)
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Calvary Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery in Saint Paul, Minnesota, established in 1856.
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History
The first Catholic cemetery in St. Paul was next to the log Chapel of Saint Paul. Prior to 1849, eleven people had been buried in it. In 1853, it was abandoned when a new cemetery was built at Marshall and Western streets, the current location of Saint Joseph's Academy.[1]: 500 However, with the city still expanding quickly, forty acres of land were purchased for $4,000 ($139,985 in 2024) in 1856. Bodies were moved to the new location from the Marshall location on November 2, 1856 (All Souls Day) in a solemn procession to the new location, called Calvary cemetery.[1]: 500 It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Minnesota.[2]
Some 50,000 burials were recorded from 1856 to 1930.[1]: 500 There are currently more than 103,000 internments.[2]
The cemetery is currently around 100 acres in size.[3]
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Notable interments
- Paul Castner, pitcher for the Chicago White Sox[4]: 142
- Joseph Crétin, first bishop of the Diocese of Saint Paul[1]: 206
- Pierce Butler, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1923 – 1939)[5]
- Austin Dowling, second archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul[1]: 500
- Thomas Grace, second bishop of the Diocese of Saint Paul[1]: 206
- Theodore Hamm, founder of Hamm's Brewery[4]: 128
- John Ireland third bishop and first archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul[1]: 2434
- Emmanuel Louis Masqueray, architect[4]: 12
- Mike O'Dowd, boxer, World Middleweight champion from 1917 to 1920[4]: 155
- Augustin Ravoux, French priest and missionary[1]: 206
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