Photo:			Wide Shot view of deteriorated Section C Wall Tombs 
Source: 		St. Louis #3 Cemetery.  
Submitted by:  		Francis Jacob f-jacob@charter.net April 6, 2005

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Additional Comments:
For almost three years, the cemetery has had a sign on the tombs stating that 
they are going to be "renovated".  What they are actually going to do is 
remove the remains from the tombs, and if they are identifiable, they will be 
stored while the "renovation" takes place.  However, the titles to the 
individual vaults have been arbitrarily "voided" by the cemetery 
(Archdiocese).  If one wants the recovered remains re-interred, one must re-
purchase the vault, or make other arrangements for the recovered remains.  
This arbitrary action by the Archdiocese of New Orleans is outrageous.  They 
are the ones that allowed the wall vaults to deterioriate.  Individual tomb 
owners could do little other than clean the faceplates of tombs.  Now, because 
of their inaction, many tombs will simply disappear, to be re-sold at a profit 
to the Archdiocese and with no thought at all to the sanctity of the remains 
interred there.  Ah, the quest for money......