Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery
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Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery

Also known as Holy Redeemer Cemetery

Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA

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  • Get directions 4268 Richmond Street
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19137-1927 United States
    Coordinates: 39.99780, -75.07690
  • 215-533-2574
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By early 1883, it had become clear that an even larger burying ground than the parish cemetery at Saint Peter's, which had rapidly filled since its opening 1849 and especially since the removal of the congregation's original churchyard burial ground in 1860, would be required for Philadelphia's German Catholics. Later that year, Father Joseph Wirth, pastor of Saint Peter's, managed to purchase ten acres on the northwest side of Richmond Street in the Bridesburg section of Philadelphia for a new cemetery. The acquired acreage was doubled two years later in 1885 and the whole site was solemnly blessed by the Archdiocesan Vicar General, Monsignor Maurice Walsh, on October 23, 1887, as the Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery. Other German Catholic parishes in the city also began to bury their dead at Holy Redeemer so that it was sometimes styled the German Catholic Cemetery or simply as "Holy Reedemer."

In May of 1887, Father Charles Sigl had the bodies of the eight priests and brothers who died at Saint Peter's or at Saint Boniface's since 1844 removed from their crypt to Most Holy Redeemer, where a plot was set aside for those who served Philadelphia's two Redemptorist parishes. Scores of Redemptorists now repose in that section, and the Redemptorists still manage both Saint Peter's and Holy Redeemer cemeteries to this day.

By early 1883, it had become clear that an even larger burying ground than the parish cemetery at Saint Peter's, which had rapidly filled since its opening 1849 and especially since the removal of the congregation's original churchyard burial ground in 1860, would be required for Philadelphia's German Catholics. Later that year, Father Joseph Wirth, pastor of Saint Peter's, managed to purchase ten acres on the northwest side of Richmond Street in the Bridesburg section of Philadelphia for a new cemetery. The acquired acreage was doubled two years later in 1885 and the whole site was solemnly blessed by the Archdiocesan Vicar General, Monsignor Maurice Walsh, on October 23, 1887, as the Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery. Other German Catholic parishes in the city also began to bury their dead at Holy Redeemer so that it was sometimes styled the German Catholic Cemetery or simply as "Holy Reedemer."

In May of 1887, Father Charles Sigl had the bodies of the eight priests and brothers who died at Saint Peter's or at Saint Boniface's since 1844 removed from their crypt to Most Holy Redeemer, where a plot was set aside for those who served Philadelphia's two Redemptorist parishes. Scores of Redemptorists now repose in that section, and the Redemptorists still manage both Saint Peter's and Holy Redeemer cemeteries to this day.

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