CHRISTMAS WREATHS
Mount Olivet 716-873-6500 (Kenmore)
Holy Cross 716-823-1197 (Lackawanna)
Holy Sepulchre 716-892-3063 (Cheektowaga)
Gate Of Heaven 716-282-5084 (Lewiston)
Assumption 716-873-6500 (Grand Island)
Queen Of Heaven 716-873-6500 (Lockport)
St. Adalbert 716-681-3090 (Lancaster)
To order your decoration, you may:
- come into your cemetery office
- call your order by phone
- email the form to your location
- print and mail it
You do not need to include a credit card on the form! Instead, you can call or stop into the office with a credit card, mail or drop off a check, or drop off cash.
More beautiful NEW Glass Niches are coming to Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Our Lady of the Rosary Mausoleum. Most niches can accommodate up to 4 urns, keeping families together. This mausoleum also has solid front niches nearby (the kind with individual lettering). For more information contact our Family Service Counselor, Jane Mozer, @ 716-873-6500.
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
History
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery was founded for the burial of Catholics of Italian background at a time when ethnic cemeteries were the norm. (The United German and French Roman Catholic Cemetery, dating to 1859, is a stone's throw away and St. Stanislaus Polish Cemetery is just down the street).
Founded in 1913 with a purchase of 20 acres of land on Harlem Road, Cheektowaga, with an entrance between Genesee Street and the Kensington Expressway, the cemetery was consecrated by Bishop Henry Colton in 1913. In a letter dated Nov. 28, 1916, Bishop Dennis Dougherty (later Cardinal Dougherty), set down rules for the governance of the Italian cemetery. Additional acreage was purchased for a total 33 acres in a narrow, very deep cemetery behind the neighborhood known as Tiorunda.
St. Francis of Assisi Chapel Mausoleum was built in 1992. Lovely mosaics of Italian Saints - Santa Francesco and Santa Chiara, St. Francis of Assisi and St. Clare of Assisi, adorn the front exterior. Inside, stained glass beautifully portrays St. Francis, the Stigmata, the Greccio Christmas scene, and the Resurrection. To drive or walk through the cemetery and read all the Italian names gives a feeling for the faith of the Italian ancestors.
Take a video tour of Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
Location
Holy Sepulchre, with its 33 acres in the town of Cheektowaga, has over 20,000 interments in the cemetery. There are approximately 8 acres of undeveloped land for future cemetery use.
Office Hours:
Monday - Friday, 9am - 2pm
Saturday - By appointment only
All cemetery grounds are open from 7am until dusk
The main door of the mausoleums opens automatically from 7am until 6pm daily
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