The Clock Of Life
by Ed Weidman
Title
The Clock Of Life
Artist
Ed Weidman
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
The land for Gate of Heaven Cemetery was purchased by the Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1916 and an initial Gothic design replicating Saint Patrick's Cathedral was accepted for the property; cemetery development began immediately. Development was sufficient for John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York, to consecrate this cemetery on July 14, 1918.
Over the course of its existence, Gate of Heaven Cemetery has interred over 190,000 Catholics and members of their families in graves, private family and community mausoleum crypts, and cremation niches located within the community mausoleum complexes. Today the cemetery averages over 2,200 interment services each year.
Significant features in Gate of Heaven Cemetery include upper entrance gates, the "Stained Glass Window" area, i.e. Sections 7 thru 13, the Stations of the Cross in Section 45, and the Guardian Angel shrine watching over the graves of infants and children in Section 45.
Among notable Catholics buried or entombed in Gate of Heaven Cemetery are:
�George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Baseball Player � Section 25
�Jimmy Walker, Mayor of New York City � Section 41
�James Cagney, Actor � St. Francis Mausoleum
�Anna Held, Actress � Section 42
�Dorothy Kilgallen, Journalist/Television Personality � Section 23
Sixty acres of the cemetery remain to be developed to accommodate the burial, entombment and inurnment needs of Catholics and members of their families throughout the greater New York area.
The Gate of Heaven Cemetery, approximately 25 miles north of New York City, was established in 1917 at 10 West Stevens Ave. in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, as a Roman Catholic burial site. Among its famous residents is baseball player Babe Ruth, whose grave has an epitaph by Cardinal Francis Spellman and is almost always adorned by a large number of baseballs, bats, and caps. Adjacent to the Garden Mausoleum is a small train station of the Metro North Railroad Harlem Division named Mount Pleasant where 4 trains stop daily, 2 northbound and 2 southbound. Several baseball players are buried here.
Uploaded
November 10th, 2013
Statistics
Viewed 137 Times - Last Visitor from Wilmington, DE on 03/16/2024 at 11:34 PM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet