{{Short description|Historic cemetery in Massachusetts}} {{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{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.
==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 | 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.<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 and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (parents of U.S. President John, U.S. Attorney General Robert, and U.S. Senator Edward). Their daughter Rosemary Kennedy is also buried here, along with several other family members. Joan Bennett Kennedy is buried here too.
The last child born to President Kennedy and 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 and 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> Cardinal John Wright; golfer Francis Ouimet; baseball player George Wright;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://holyhood.com/about/historic-figures/|title=Historic Figures | 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>[https://archive.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories5/082903_funeral.htm Former priest slain in prison is buried in Brookline cemetery]. [https://archive.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories5/082903_funeral.htm]</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 Dallin File:James Jeffrey Roche Tombstone Holyhood Cemetery.jpg|James Jeffrey Roche Tombstone </gallery>
==Commonwealth War Grave== The cemetery contains one Commonwealth war burial, of an 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 William Becker Hagan] CWGC Casualty record.</ref>
==See also== * National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts
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==External links== {{commonscat-inline}} * [http://holyhood.com/index.php Holyhood Cemetery Association] * {{Find a Grave cemetery}}
{{NRHP in Norfolk County, 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