The shillelagh, in an effort to remember their brethren, started an online fundraiser for the cross, a 700-pound piece handcrafted in Ireland and flown to New Jersey. The headstone features ...

Calvary Catholic Cemetery graves, she smiled. Ireland had sent Portland its greatest ... The crowd "awwwed" at the 14-foot Celtic cross, modeled on The Cross of the Scriptures, the iconic "sermon ...

The family chose the location of the church and cemetery in 1830 ... to commemorate the Irish immigrants buried at Funk’s Grove. It reads: "This Celtic cross honors the memory of more than ...

A group of Irish families led a procession from the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist to Emmet Park on Sunday for the 35th annual Celtic Cross Ceremony. The annual ceremony is one of the more ...

Father Tom Murphy summing up the significance of Sunday’s Celtic Cross mass, ceremony and procession in one sentence: “Welcome to the most beautiful celebration we share as Savannah Irish Catholics.” ...

Following the mass, the group gathered at Emmet Park, formerly known as the Irish Green, for the Celtic Cross ceremony. The ceremony is typically one of the more reverent events in the St ...