Meade said they’ve also added three new columbarium for cremation niches.
The beautification efforts at the Angel Memorial Garden are just one of many changes Holy Cross has made. Meade said the diocese also installed a fence around the garden area and moved a statue of Madonna and Child there as a fitting tribute. In addition to the markers, each small grave is also memorialized with a simple white cross that the cemetery installs and maintains. Some had been there so long they were hidden under layers of soil. A statue of Madonna and Child watches over the Angel Memorial Garden at Holy Cross.Īs part of the Eagle Scout project, the youth first cleaned the area then lined up all the headstones and leveled them. “We want to make sure the babies are memorialized properly,” Meade said. When the family is eventually transferred, there is no one left to take care of the burial site, so Holy Cross, years ago, designated an area specifically for those children. Karmin Meade, director, said these infants are mostly the children of service members and other families who are only in South Carolina temporarily. This little area of small, white crosses is where babies are buried when the family only needs a spot for their child inside the Catholic cemetery. The youth, Metz Prause, who was working to attain his Eagle Scout badge, devoted his time and effort to renovate an area known as the Angel Memorial Garden.
JAMES ISLAND-God’s smallest angels received some special attention at Holy Cross Cemetery recently from a local Boy Scout.
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