Santa Clara Mission Cemetery - Santa Clara, CA.
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N 37° 20.502 W 121° 56.911
10S E 593137 N 4133297
One of the many cemeteries of the Mission Santa Clara de Asis.
Waymark Code: WM2G3K
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 10/28/2007
Views: 86
On the first Saturday of each month at noon, Mass is held in the St. Clare Chapel in remembrance of all those buried at the cemetery. Visitors are welcome.
"By 1851, when Santa Clara College was founded, the Jesuit Fathers realized that the old cemetery near the Mission was filled. The new site they selected was within a few minutes walk from the Mission and was located near the small Adobe home of Don Fernando Berryessa. This is the current location of Santa Clara Mission Cemetery-at the corner of Winchester Boulevard and Bellomy Street.
To walk through the older areas of the cemetery is to travel through nearly 150 years of history. Many early Santa Clara Valley pioneers, of rich and varied cultural backgrounds, are buried in the cemetery. Included are Pedro de Saisset (French Vice-Consul, businessman and philanthropist),Triburcio Vasquez(known as the "Robin Hood Bandit"), Antonio Maria Pico (three times Alcalde of San Jose), Myles Poore O'Connor (lawyer, judge and philanthropist) and Peter Burnett (the first Governor of California).
Inside the gates one finds beautiful examples of Cemetery art-including marble and bronze statues, obelisks and elaborately carved headstones. Family mausoleums are made of both imported and local stone with iron gates and doors, marble shutters and stained glass windows." (Source: Santa Clara Mission Cemetery website (http://santaclaramissioncemetery.com/history.html)
Approximate number of graves is unknown.
Text on the headstone reads: "PIAZZA PISA In memory of Rose Piazza Oct. 5, 1875 - Apr. 7, 1963. In memory of "Giuseppina Pisa 1889-197? and Pasquale Pisa 189?-1964."
Name of church or churchyard: Santa Clara Mission Cemetery
Approximate Size: Large (100+)
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