St. Roch Cemetery #2

1725 St. Roch Avenue

St. Michael's Mausoleum Chapel
St. Roch Cemetery #2
New Orleans, Louisiana 

St. Michael's Mausoleum Chapel

"Located in the St. Roch neighborhood of New Orleans, this cemetery was established as St. Roch’s Campo Santo by Father Peter Leonard Thevis, pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in lower New Orleans. Construction of the cemetery, modeled after the Campo Santo dei Tedeschi in Rome, began in 1874. In 1876, the chapel was completed and dedicated, the cemetery opening on the feast day of St. Roch. The eastern section of the cemetery (St. Roch Cemetery No. 2) was added in 1895 across Music Street." (Link 3.)

Chapel Statue

"One of the best cemeteries (and still free) to visit! St. Roch was the patron saint of dogs and miraculous cures. In cemetery #1 you'll find the National Shrine to St. Roch where those ailed by the inability to walk, or prosthetics, were cured. Their crutches, braces and medical walking boots are abandoned here inside the small locked room inside the shrine. The floor of the room is lined with bricks imprinted with the words "thank you" and people have tossed coins in thanks inside the shrine as well. Cemetery #1 includes beautiful Stations of the Cross as well. 

Chapel Altar

"In cemetery #2, you'll find more modern mausoleums and so many flowers! Clearly the residents of this graveyard have abundant perpetual care. This cemetery also includes some very intricate and breathtaking mosaics of biblical scenes.

"Walled ... cemetery. ... entry gates and above ground crypts. " (Link 2.)

"The public gate to this block square cemetery is on Music Street . The exterior appearance is much more mixed than the older Sain Roch's Campo Santo 1 and the red sheet metal gates for the service entrance behind the main mausoleum seem almost jarringly out of place."  (Link 1.)

Prayer Before a Crucifix

Photos: Taken in April 2017 by Suzanne's daughter, Amy, while visiting 

                 New Orleans.

Link 1: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1365276
Link 2: https://www.yelp.com/biz/st-roch-cemeteries-new-orleans      
Link 3:  http://tclf.org/st-roch-cemetery

                                                                  Prayer

God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)

St. Paul Lutheran Church

       2624 Burgundy Street

St. Paul Lutheran Church
New Orleans, Louisiana

"... first Protestant German church, St. Paul Lutheran, founded in 1840. The congregations included artisans, shopkeepers, farmers, dairymen, and the settlers of Milneburg." (Link 1.)

Church Plaque

"First German Lutheran Congregation of New Orleans (1840) Originally: German Orthodox Evangelical Congregation of New Orleans and Lafayette Formerly: First German Lutheran Congregation of New Orleans Presently: St. Paul Lutheran Church." (Link 2.) Pastor Sans came to New Orleans in 1840 and put an ad in the German newspaper that an evangelical church service would be held in the fire house on Chartre Street the first Sunday in August. Regular services were held after that.  In 1843 property was bought for a church to be built under the name of German Orthodox Evangelical Congregation of New Orleans and Lafayette.  The church that was built of flat lumber had a 75 foot steeple. (LInk 3.) "The first organ installed in this church, according to the OUSCDB database, was a3 manual, 4 division Hinners organ dating to the early 1900's.  The present organ was installed in 1970." (Link 2.)

National Register Plaque

Photos: Taken in April 2017 by Suzanne's daughter, Amy, while visiting 

                 New Orleans.
Link 1: http://www.saveourcemeteries.org/st-roch-cemeteries-no-1-and-2/
Link 2: http://www.neworleanschurches.com/stpaulluth/stpaulluth.htm
Link 3:
 http://freepages.religions.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~neworleans/st_paul_records/st_paul_publications/1890_translation.pdf

                                                                         Prayer

God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)