page_title: Joseph Sadoc Alemany
section_title: Retirement
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Sadoc Alemany / Retirement
caption_attribution_description: The vault of Archbishop Joseph Alemany in the Holy Cross Mausoleum at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California.
context_page_description: Joseph Sadoc Alemany y Conill, O.P. was a Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop and missionary. He served as the first Bishop of Monterey from 1850 until 1853, and as the first Archbishop of San Francisco from 1853 until 1884.
context_section_description: After his resignation, Archbishop Alemany left San Francisco in May 1885, he toured New York, was presented by Catholic General William Rosecrans to President Grover Cleveland. He arrived in Italy, having an audience with Pope Leo XIII and was appointed titular archbishop of Pelusium. Alemany returned to Catalonia. He died in Valencia, on April 14, 1888, and was buried in the Church of Sant Domènec in his native Vic.  In 1965, his body was brought back to San Francisco after a funeral mass said by Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken at the Old Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception he was buried in the Archbishops' Crypt in the mausoleum in Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California.
  He was an author, publishing his The Life of St. Dominick.
  Alemany Boulevard and the Alemany Maze in San Francisco, Bishop Alemany High School in
  Mission Hills, California and the Archbishop Alemany Library at Dominican University of California in San Rafael are all named in his honor.
caption: Alemany's vault at Holy Cross
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