Episode 10: All Souls: St. Mary's City, Calvary, and the Numbers Game of Catholic Cemeteries

04/24/23 • 39 min

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The United States largest cemetery is a Catholic cemetery. One of it's most intact mortuary archaeological sites is a Catholic cemetery. Yet despite this, little has been written about Catholic cemeteries themselves, how they are founded, how the y should be run, or how they are designed. Catholic cemeteries are all about one thing... and they do it well. Volume.
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