Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-10-07
POPULARITY OF MAUSOLEUM
BURIAL AMONG CATHOLICS.
Register Buildings Completed and
Building In Catholic Cemeteries.

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Roman Catholics Is whether mauso-
leum will be constructed exclusively
Tor members Of the Catholic church.
This is quite impossible in the smaller
towns, but this precedent has been es-
tablished in Ohio and we quote from a
letter written February oath, 1909, by
the Rev. Anthony j. Mintink, Of st.
Patrlck's church, Troy, Ohio, in which
he says to the members of his congre-
cation;
ITO Whom 1t May Concern:
According TO communication from
the Most Rev, Archbishop Moeller Of
Cincinnati, Ohio, there is no objection
to Catholics burylng in the maqso-
leum in the Troy cemetery Protest
anti His Grace, however, urges that
Catholics have their tombs aside each
other in as far as possible
Respectfully yours,
Anthony j. Mintlnk,
Pastor.
While this in no sense applies to
other than the Cincinnati diocese,
highest Catholic authorities would not
deny their own people the opportuni-
ity Of ayalllng themselves Of such en-
tombment, if they expressed prefer
ence for 1t. Why should they? The
Portland Mausoleum Co. Is construct
ing mausoleums for all the people Of
the state without regard to religious
beliefs or connections whatever, and
since Protestants and Catholics fire.
Cuently bury their dead in the same
cemetery, there certainly would be
less objection to entombing their dead
| in the same community mausoleum,
should It be done with the same high
regard for form and religious belief
and privilege, and especially so, since,
in the smaller communities, Catholics
would be deprived of such burial alto
gether, If the church authorities did
not follow the above very kind and
wholesome precedent Then, too,
Catholic families would share the
chapel and receiving vault accommo-
dations which would be quite as de-
sirable to them as to any other por-
tion of the community.
This is q matter which the bishop
and pastor should adjust with the pur-
pose Of giving such privilege and ben
eft that both precedent and convent
ence, as well as necessity, will sug-
gest, with the sole view of denying to
no one what he or she may desire, if
reasonable, and in accordance with
the church's requirements, or can be
made to conform, and can be secured
in no other way.
In st. Joseph's Catholic cemetery,
Cincinnati Ohio, 14OO tomb mauso-
leum is approaching completion and it
is being built under the patronage of
Archbishop Moeller and provided with
sarcophagi for two bishops, one of
whom was the immediate predecessor
of Archbishop Moeller, and for his
Grace the Archbishop himself, sur
rounded by 100 crypts for priests of
the diocese, and many more for the
sisters of different orders, and for the
congregation at large approaching in
all nearly 1400 tombs.
In the Catholic cemeteries at Wa
tertown, South Dakota, Mantena, llli-
nois, mausoleums were completed
over a year ago, and only recently a
roo tomb mausoleum was begun in
the Catholic cemetery Fort Wayne,
Indiana, so that this method of en-
tombment is highly endorsed by Cath
olic authorities and is the oldest, and
by all odds, the most eminently proper
burial known to the early or modern
church, whether Protestant or Cath
Ollie.