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.

[3] Holyhood Cemetery is best known for being the final resting place of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (parents of U.S. President John, U.S. Attorney General Robert, and U.S.

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,[4] Cardinal John Wright, golfer Francis Ouimet; baseball player George Wright;[5] Irish poet and journalist John Boyle O'Reilly;[6] author, poet, journalist and diplomat James Jeffrey Roche, and lightbulb pioneer and engineer Martha J.

John Geoghan, an American Roman Catholic priest and serial child rapist is also interred there.

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