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The cemetery contains a triangular grassy area called "The Island of Hope" for the burials of abandoned babies, nearly all of whom are the victims of neonaticide.It is owned by the Children of Hope Foundation, founded by Tim Jaccard, an ambulance medical technician with the Nassau County Police, to pay for funerals and marked graves for abandoned babies and children.
In 2016 the diocese created a new corporation, Catholic Cemeteries of Long Island, to assume ownership of its cemeteries. It administers four major cemeteries: [57] Cemetery of the Holy Rood – Westbury; Holy Sepulchre Cemetery – Coram; Queen of Peace Cemetery – Old Westbury; Queen of All Saints Cemetery – Central Islip
Cedar Grove Cemetery (Queens, New York), Flushing, Queens; Cedar Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Newburgh; Cedar Lawn Cemetery, East Hampton; Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn; Cemetery of the Holy Rood, Westbury, New York; Chesed Shel Emes Cemetery, Liberty; Cold Springs Cemetery, near Carlisle Gardens; Colden Family Cemetery, in the town of ...
St. Joseph's Church (Staten Island) Saint Raymond's Cemetery (Bronx) St. Agnes Cemetery; St. Charles / Resurrection Cemeteries; St. John Cemetery (Queens) St. Joseph Cemetery, Fleming; St. Peter's Cemetery (Staten Island)
The chapel under construction in 2021 The chapel near completion in August 2022. The federal government auctioned the property in 1995. [8] The Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre won the auction, planning to convert the property into a cemetery, as its Cemetery of the Holy Rood, then the only major Catholic cemetery in Nassau County, was running out of space. [7]
Burials at the Cemetery of the Holy Rood (34 P) Pages in category "Cemeteries in Nassau County, New York" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Originally called Trinity Church Upper Grave Yard, the burial ground was established by Holy Trinity Catholic Church in 1832. It was enlarged between 1850 and 1870, and renamed Holy Rood Cemetery. (Rood is an old English word for Cross.) [1] The cemetery walls were torn down in 1901 and new ones erected, and many trees were removed to prevent ...
Mount Richmond Cemetery was established in 1909, in response to the need for more graves for New York's indigent Jewish community. Currently, the Hebrew Free Burial Association buries approximately 400 Jews a year, and nearly 60,000 Jews have been buried since Mt. Richmond's inception.