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 1725 - 1798 (73 years)
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| Name |
Andres Almonester y Roxas |
| Born |
1725 |
Andalusia, Spain  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
25 Apr 1798 |
New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Age: 73 |
| Buried |
26 Apr 1798 |
St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Person ID |
I5692 |
Stewart |
| Last Modified |
26 Feb 2016 |
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| Notes |
Buried:
- Disinterred on 11 Nov 1799 and ensepulchred in St. Louis Cathedral:
"By order of His Catholic Majesty, el Senor Don Carlos IV (whom may God preserve) and at the solicitation of the Most Illustrious Senor Diocesan Don Luis Penalver y Cardenas, most worthy first bishop of this province of Louisiana and the Floridas, there was disinterred from the common cemetery of the Faithful, the body of the distinguished benefactor of this Holy Cathedral Church of New Orleans, Don Andres Almonester y Roxas, founder of the three churches in said city; whose very pious works are not only useful to religion but also to humanity.
"He was a native of Mayrena de Alcor, province of Andalusia in Spain, in the Archbishopic of Seville; he died on the twenty-fifth of April of last year, ninety eight, and today, the eleventh of November, ninety-nine, in the presence of the aforesaid Most Illustrious Prelate, and all his clergy, there was given honorable sepulture with all possible funeral pomp to the revered remains of the aforementioned deceased; which are buried at the foot of the marble step of the altar of the Most Blessed Virgin of the Rosary of this Holy Cathedral Church."
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