St. Joseph Catholic Church (Roxbury, Massachusetts)
- St. Joseph Catholic Church (Roxbury, Massachusetts)
St. Joseph Catholic Church was a parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The parish was established in 1845, and a church was built in the same year. The parish was suppressed by the archdiocese in 2002, resulting in the sale of the property.
Cemetery
As was common in the 19th century, the parish property included space for a cemetery, which was blessed in 1850. However, due to its small size, the cemetery had filled by 1868. There were about 600 people (mostly Irish immigrants from County Donegal) buried in the cemetery. [ [http://www.ccemetery.org/About/stJosephRoxbury.html The Catholic Cemetery Association, Inc. - History of St. Joseph Parish Cemeter, Roxbury ] ] After 1882, the city mapmakers ceased including it, and the parish gradually forgot that it existed. As early as 1887, when the parish grammar school was built next to it, there seemed to be no recognition of the cemetery. It was nothing more than a field with no visible gravestones.
However, in the 1990s, a construction crew discovered a gravestone while digging a trench. The digging stopped, but no other artifacts were found. Again, in 2006, digging commenced. The parish property had been sold by the archdiocese, and the parish needed confirmation that there were no longer human remains on site. When a bone was found, the Massachusetts Historical Commission investigated the site and discovered the forgotten graves. All of the remains that were found at St. Joseph Cemetery were re-interred at Calvary Cemetery in Waltham, Massachusetts. [http://www.ccemetery.org/News/061010-WalthamMemorial-StJoesRoxbury.pdf]
References
External links
* [http://www.ccemetery.org/About/stJosephRoxbury.html St. Joseph Cemetery Discovery]
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