Saint Mary's Catholic Cemetery is a historic

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...

and national

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located in

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. It encompasses six contributing structures and one contributing object within a cemetery established in 1854 to serve the

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communities of Norfolk, Virginia Beach, and Chesapeake. The cemetery was founded by the pastor of

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of Norfolk. Notable features include a large bronze crucifix, erected around 1922 in honor of Catholic servicemen who served in World War I and six family

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s. an
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in 2001.

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* {{National Register of Historic Places in Virginia 1854 establishments in Virginia Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Cemeteries in Virginia Roman Catholic cemeteries in Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Buildings and structures in Norfolk, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk, Virginia