The New York herald., 1879-09-08
NEW CALVARY CEMETERY.

BLESSING AN ENCLOSURE OF FrFTY-sIx ACRES
VERY REV. VICAR GENERAL QUINN ON THE
RELATIONS OF CATHOLICISM TO CATHOLIC
BURYING GROUNDS.
The announcement that the grounds of Cal
vary Cemetery would be blessed and dedicated yes
tarday. attracted large assemblagesin the township
Of Newtown. Long Island, who. after strolling
through the old cemetery at Blissvlle. walked the
intervening quarter OF mile. on the old Bushwick
and Newtown shell road to the enclosure now known
"New Calvary" to witness the interesting cere-
monies conducted by Vicar General Quinn. The an
ticpated reference to the Coppers which will
be argued in the Supreme Court this morning being
anxiously expected. and doubt added many to the
throng.
The new grounds include eighty-four acres-the
Burroughs. Dunn and PEBBLES farms-of which
ffty-six blessed yesterday and thus laid
open for interments. When these lands were pur-
chased. in 1870. there was then near possibility of
their immediate for burial purposes, So in order
to avoid tho payment Of further taxes the prop
erty q body was inferred each side Of the shell
road which divided tho farms. and, the entire
grounds being mapped as two lots. they for
ever exempt from taxes. rates and assessments in
the town where they are situated.
a.. THE NEW CEMETERY GROUNDS.
The ground blessed has been needed for some little
time to accommodate purchasers of single graves.
and the centra. portions OF each section laid out
will be devoted to their use. the quarter lots the
main avenues only. being for sale as lots An arte
sian we'll has been bored, and numerous
fountains. with bountiful supply Of water will
not only beautify the cemetery. but will supply
abundance of water to the patrons Of the insitu-
ton. Mr.. +. NJ. Leonard. the surveyor and engineer
in charge of both the old and thelnew grounds has
been enabled at the start to obtain great advan
tage in this portion of the cemetery-a system Of
drainage. sewerage and grade that will obviate any
difficulty whatever in the future. especially as to
damage by heavy rains.
Just within the gate cosey gothic cottage meets
the eyes of the visitor, the pleasing exterior pre-
pairing him for the neat interior comprising office
reception and retiring rooms. all sufficiently
modious but without pretension. Here the record
Of each interment and the business of the grounds
will be kept, a system that will avoid the annoy
in the old Office arising from the irregularly
old-time complaining will from yesterday, at
least as far as the newly blessed grounds con-
cerned.
The ceremonies which appointed for four
o'clock delayed until hve by the difficulty in
Blissville Bridge the choir and attending priests
having to go around through Long Island City-a
circuit of some three miles extra.
At five O'Clock, everything been In readiness. the
procession loft the office for the canopy erected to
protect the officiating clergy from the elements.
The trustees marched first, next came
Rev. Fathers Kane and Lamme twcntyfour
choir boys In cassock and gown, and then
Very Rev. Vicar General Quinn, supported by Rev
Father Kearney. AS they entered the canopy three
candles lighted In front OF plain white cross
six feet in height Prayers followed and. after sing
ing the Litany OF the Saints. the Vicar General,
preceded by the trustees present-Messrs Daniel
Moore. Andrew Martin. George b. Coleman, James
and escorted by Father Kearney made the circuit Of
the ground, sprinkling it with holy water as he
progressed. The choir boys under the leadership
OF Fathers Kane and Lammel. singing. .psalms under
the canopy until the circuit was completed. The
candles then removed by Very Row Father
Quinn from the stand to the head and arms OF the
cross. and after another prayer he addressed the
VICAR GENERAL ourSS's ADDRESS
II will not delay you By any heightened remarks,
a. the iabors blessing tho ground have been quite
cordlng to tho customs of the Catholic Church
these grounds which have now been blessed, under
charge Of the Trustees OF ST. Patrick's Cathedral,
are now set apart from this day forward for the IN.
ternent OF the dead. The land was purchased
yeSs. ago in n, orasr s,,o to prayde place NoM of
York city and environs who may desire to
be Inferred In these grounds. The far seeing
mcnt, and to-day we have blessed one-half of the
purchase. between forty and nifty acres. II has
pose, 30 that no confusion will ever arise here as
to tho location of grave or lot. These grounds
after her children in lite. besowing on them tho
blessing OF religion by consecration through bap-
tism. but secs that their bodies-the temples OF
the soul--aro laid In consccrated ground. thus
following them beyond the earth with her
shelter and her blessing. This is u catholic
burying ground. and 1t ~ proper that should
therefore speak OF recent effort to inter not
tholic but who in his last will left injunction that
after the funeral services In Protestant church, by
Protestant minister, his body should be buried in
a catholic cemetery. His wiic and mother had been
Catholics. and, dying in the sith had been inferred
in calvary Cemetery; but he had never been Cath
Ollie. Catholic cemetery IL exclusively tor Catho-
lies, for none others, and aCathoc clergy yman who
performs the functions on the romans of not n
Catholic, would be liable to censure and should
Justly aud properly be suspended by his bishop
lie Is not at liberty to perform the functions pre-
scrbed by the Church over such a one, and these
grounds are intenued for Catholics and Catholics
only and all who do not die in tho faith
should be rigdly excluded. This exclusion
also extends to others who not entitled to
the privileges of interment herc-all those
who die in grievous sin without giving n sign Of
repentance. or In the act OF performing sin all
Suicides who take their own life when sensible of
their crime, all who die drunk. before they eau
repent--all these should bo excluded And TO these
must be added those who are communicated by
the laws of the Church-those who belong to secret
societies which are denounced by the Church or
mentioned In the bulls OF the Holy See.