{"id":1701,"date":"2014-02-23T18:15:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T00:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2014-02-23T18:15:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T00:15:39","slug":"saint-rochs-campo-santo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1701","title":{"rendered":"Saint Roch&#8217;s Campo Santo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neworleanschurches.com\/stroch\/stroch.htm\">Saint Roch&#8217;s Campo Santo<\/a> (New Orleans, Louisiana)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan\u00a0<\/strong>writes to recommend this cemetery:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I too have been to both St. Louis #1 and #2, and while they&#8217;re the famous cemeteries in New Orleans, they&#8217;re not the prettiest. My favorite one is Saint Roch&#8217;s Campo Santo, which is located inland from the Bywater area and down-river from the Treme. It&#8217;s on St. Roch street. It&#8217;s small, 1 square block, but contains some truly amazing grave sculptures and ironwork; very picturesque! The 14 stations of the cross are done in near-life sized marble sculpture, and inset into the walls surrounding the cemetery. It also has a small very creepy chapel dedicated to St. Roch. The altar is set atop a bloodied corpse of Jesus, while off to the side of the altar there is a small antechamber filled with syncretic christian\/animist offerings to various Voodoo saints. It is well worth the visit!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how it fared after Katrina. I was there in 2002 and made a short black and white movie about the cemetery, spending a couple days in filming there in complete safety. As with most cemeteries in NOLA, it&#8217;s owned and maintained by the Catholic Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Roch&#8217;s Campo Santo (New Orleans, Louisiana) Dan\u00a0writes to recommend this cemetery: I too have been to both St. Louis #1 and #2, and while they&#8217;re the famous cemeteries in New Orleans, they&#8217;re not the prettiest. My favorite one is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1701\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-louisiana"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}