When the yellow fever hit New Orleans in 1867, the German priest Rev. Peter Leonard Thevis prayed for intercession of St. Roch, considered the patron saint of good health, to protect his parishioners.

The cemetery is home to many fine tombs and mausoleums, but more notably, the lovely Gothic St. Roch Chapel with a painted wooden statue of its namesake — and his dog — on the altar. Arresting in its ...

The Archdiocese of New Orleans is planning a number of services in Catholic cemeteries in observance of All Saints Day on Nov. 1. ST. LOUIS CEMETERIES: Archbishop Gregory Aymond, with Msgr. Kenneth ...

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