Xaverian Brothers Cemetery in Leonardtown, Maryland

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Get directions Camp Calvert Rd
Leonardtown, Maryland 20650 United States

Coordinates: 38.28594, -76.62467
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This cemetery for the Xaverian Brothers is behind the main athletic field of St. Mary's Ryken High School. After you turn on Camp Calvert Road, take the first left and you will see a sign beside a road that leads to the cemetery which is shown in the fourth cemetery photo

Around the cemetery are wooden Stations of the Cross which were donated by the family of John E. Cullen.

There are a few flat stones, but most of the stones are upright - stretching on each side of a central sculpture. Each stone has on it the length of time the brother was "in religion" - that is a member of the Congregation of St. Francis Xavier (CFX). On the top is the name by which the Brother was known in the community.

The Xaverian Brothers are a congregation of lay religious, which was founded by Theodore James Ryken (Brother Francis Xavier) in Bruges, Belgium, in 1839, for the education of youth, especially in America. Ryken High School was founded in 1956 as a boys Catholic high school. They merged with St. Mary's Academy (a Catholic girls high school) in 1981.