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2 unusual facts about Campo Verano


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Campo Verano, a cemetery in Rome, Italy that was founded in the early nineteenth century

William Maziere Brady

He died of apoplexy in Rome, 19 March 1894, and was buried in the Campo Verano.


Edward O'Rourke

In 1972 O'Rourke's ashes were moved from Campo Verano to his former bishopric in Poland; they were buried in a crypt in the Oliwa Cathedral.

Giovanni Cagliero

He was initially buried in the sepulchre of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in Campo Verano cemetery, but his remains were later transferred in 1964 to Mater Misericordiae Cathedral in Viedma.


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