What is an historical cemetery?
As their name implies historical cemeteries are the older cemeteries, St. Albert, St Joachim and St. Anthony. These cemeteries are often in the center of residential areas and have: – few if any spaces left for sale and no room to expand – mature trees and shrubbery but no large central features or design elements – no offices or mausoleum on site – no cemetery records are kept on site – appeal to families who have generations buried in the older cemetery who would like to arrange for burial with those family members. I like the idea of above-ground entombment but I don’t plan to be cremated. Is there space in the Mausoleum at Holy Cross for casket burial? Absolutely. The Mausoleum walls themselves are steel-reinforced concrete crypts suitable for the entombment of one or two crypts in a sealed unit with granite or marble “face” for the inscription. Crypt entombment is a very old Christian tradition, dating back to the earliest days of the Church, when the bodies of believers were ento
