Sacred spaces around campus virtual tour Abbey cemetery
This
tour concludes with the Abbey Cemetery, which dates from 1923. Some 90
burials have taken place in it to date. The walls surrounding the
cemetery were built with staggered concrete blocks and its welded metal
gates were created in 1960. Monks – both priests and brothers – as well
as a few non-monks are buried in orderly rows, with the graves of Saint
Martin’s abbots at the top of its gentle westward grade.
The
cemetery is also graced with a large crucifix with a corpus (Christ’s
body) molded from cannon shells collected from World War I French
battlefields.
Visitors are welcome to enter but are kindly asked
to be respectful of this holy place, as it is the burial ground of Saint
Martin’s monastic family.
This
tour concludes with the Abbey Cemetery, which dates from 1923. Some 90
burials have taken place in it to date. The walls surrounding the
cemetery were built with staggered concrete blocks and its welded metal
gates were created in 1960. Monks – both priests and brothers – as well
as a few non-monks are buried in orderly rows, with the graves of Saint
Martin’s abbots at the top of its gentle westward grade. 
The
cemetery is also graced with a large crucifix with a corpus (Christ’s
body) molded from cannon shells collected from World War I French
battlefields. 
