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{{Short description|Historic cemetery in Massachusetts}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2019}}
{{Infobox NRHP
| name         = Holyhood Cemetery
| nrhp_type    =
| image        = BrooklineMA HolyhoodCemeteryChapel.jpg
| caption      =
| location     = Heath Street, [[Brookline, Massachusetts]]
| coordinates  = {{coord|42|19|12|N|71|10|1|W|display=inline,title|format=dms}}
| locmapin     = Massachusetts#USA
| built        = 1857
| architect    = [[Patrick Keely]]
| architecture = Gothic Revival
| added        = October 17, 1985
| area         = {{convert|35|acre}}
| mpsub        = {{NRHP url|id=64000274|title=Brookline MRA}}
| refnum       = 85003275<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2009a}}</ref>
}}
'''Holyhood Cemetery''' is a [[cemetery]] located in [[Brookline, Massachusetts|Brookline]], [[Massachusetts]].

==Description==
Laid out in 1857, the cemetery was designed to reflect the [[rural cemetery]] movement begun at Cambridge's [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]]. It was the first such cemetery in Brookline.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://holyhood.com/about/history/|title=History &#124; Holyhood Cemetery Association|website=holyhood.com}}</ref> The cemetery was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1985.<ref name=nris/>  Most of the cemetery has the layout typical of rural cemeteries, with winding lanes and attractive landscaping.  One section, known as the "German Acre" and located near the entrance, has a more traditional rectilinear form; it was laid out for a congregation of predominantly German Catholics.  The cemetery chapel, built 1859–62, is set on a hill near its center, and was designed by [[Patrick Keely]], an architect of Catholic churches.  It is a Gothic Revival structure, built out of [[puddingstone (rock)|puddingstone]].<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web|url=https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=bkl.ar|title=NRHP nomination for Holyhood Cemetery|publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts|access-date=September 6, 2015}}</ref>

==Notable burials==
===Kennedy family===
Holyhood Cemetery is best known for being the final resting place of [[Joseph P. Kennedy|Joseph]] and [[Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy]] (parents of [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[John F. Kennedy|John]], [[U.S. Attorney General]] [[Robert F. Kennedy|Robert]], and U.S. Senator [[Edward M. Kennedy|Edward]]). Their daughter, [[Rosemary Kennedy]], is also buried here, along with several other family members.

The last child born to President Kennedy and [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]] [[Jacqueline Kennedy]], [[Patrick Bouvier Kennedy]], was also buried at Holyhood Cemetery, until being removed to [[Arlington National Cemetery]], along with a stillborn daughter originally buried in Newport, Rhode Island, following their father's [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassination]] and [[State Funeral of John F. Kennedy|burial]] there in 1963.

===Others===
Holyhood is also the final resting place of former Boston Mayor and U.S. Representative [[Patrick Collins (mayor)]] with a memorial sculpted by [[Cyrus Edwin Dallin]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=Modern Cemetery|year=1909|location=google books|pages=490}}</ref> [[John Wright (bishop of Pittsburgh)|Cardinal John Wright]], [[golf]]er [[Francis Ouimet]]; [[baseball]] player [[George Wright (sportsman)|George Wright]];<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://holyhood.com/about/historic-figures/|title=Historic Figures &#124; Holyhood Cemetery Association|website=holyhood.com}}</ref> Irish poet and journalist [[John Boyle O'Reilly]];<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Great Shame: A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New|last=Keneally|first=Thomas}}</ref> author, poet, journalist and diplomat [[James Jeffrey Roche]], and lightbulb pioneer and engineer [[Martha J. B. Thomas]]. [[John Geoghan]], an American Roman Catholic priest and serial child rapist is also interred there.<ref>http://archive.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories5/082903_funeral.htm. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927043611/http://archive.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories5/082903_funeral.htm |date=September 27, 2018 }}</ref>

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File:John Boyle O'Reilly Tombstone Holyhood Cemetery Brookline Massachusetts USA.jpg|John Boyle O'Reilly Tombstone Holyhood Cemetery Brookline, Massachusetts
File:John Boyle O'Reilly Tombstone Plaque Close-up Holyhood Cemetery Brookline Massachusetts USA.jpg|John Boyle O'Reilly Tombstone Plaque Close-up Holyhood Cemetery Brookline, Massachusetts
File:Patrick A Collins Memorial.jpg|Patrick A Collins Memorial – designed and executed by [[Cyrus Edwin Dallin|Cyrus Dallin]]
File:James Jeffrey Roche Tombstone Holyhood Cemetery.jpg|James Jeffrey Roche Tombstone
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==Commonwealth War Grave==
The cemetery contains one [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission|Commonwealth war burial]], of an [[United States|American]]-born [[Royal Air Force]] Cadet of [[World War I]] William Becker Hagan.<ref>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/4010287/HAGAN,%20WILLIAM%20BECKER] CWGC Casualty record.</ref>

==See also==
* [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://holyhood.com/index.php Holyhood Cemetery Association]
* {{Find a Grave cemetery}}

{{National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts}}

[[Category:Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Brookline, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Roman Catholic cemeteries in Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Cemeteries in Norfolk County, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Rural cemeteries]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Brookline, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Brookline, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in the United States]]
[[Category:Cemeteries established in the 1850s]]