![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/551/jpeg/22t.jpg) A crucifix in front of the Chapel of Saint Roch Cemetery built over "wishing well", with a marble sculpture of an infant as an ex voto presented by a grateful mother whose child was cured of all illnesses. New Orleans, Louisiana, October 28, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/526/jpeg/04t.jpg) A photo camera adorning the Chapel of Saint Roch Cemetery as a voting offering (ex-voto) among plaster replications of limbs placed in the niche dedicated to the healed by a grateful believer cured from an eye affliction. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 26, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/525/jpeg/23t.jpg) A shrine with plaster replications of limbs and organs cured by Saint Roch in Chapel of Saint Roch Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 26, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/551/jpeg/25t.jpg) Replicas of feet and handicapped braces in ex-voto niche dedicated to the healed in Chapel of Saint Roch Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, October 28, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/551/jpeg/24t.jpg) A statue of St. Lucy with eyeballs on a plate in ex-voto niche dedicated to the healed in Chapel of Saint Roch Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, October 28, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/551/jpeg/26t.jpg) Representations of various parts of human body in ex-voto niche dedicated to the healed in Chapel of Saint Roch Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, October 28, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/440/jpeg/14t.jpg) A shrine in Chapel of Saint Roch Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, March 19, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/440/jpeg/15t.jpg) A niche dedicated to the healed in Chapel of Saint Roch Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, March 19, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/440/jpeg/16t.jpg) Relics in a niche dedicated to the healed in Chapel of Saint Roch Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, March 19, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/440/jpeg/12t.jpg) Entrance lodges and gates of Saint Roch Cemetery No. 1. Father Thevis Chapel is in the background. New Orleans, Louisiana, March 19, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/448/jpeg/08t.jpg) Front porch of "Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel" house at 2523 Prytania Street in Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 11, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/551/jpeg/23t.jpg) An altar with a statue of Saint Roch in Chapel of Saint Roch Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, October 28, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/526/jpeg/03t.jpg) An altar with a statue of Saint Roch, including a dog, in Chapel of Saint Roch Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 26, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/526/jpeg/02t.jpg) Vaulted ceiling of Chapel of Saint Roch Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 26, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/439/jpeg/10t.jpg) A porch of "Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel" house at 2523 Prytania Street in Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, March 5, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/525/jpeg/25t.jpg) Crutches and braces lining a niche dedicated to the healed in Chapel of Saint Roch Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 26, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/525/jpeg/26t.jpg) Plaster replications of hands in a niche dedicated to the healed in Chapel of Saint Roch Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 26, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/526/jpeg/01t.jpg) Representations of various parts of human body and "thanks blocks" as ex votos in a niche dedicated to the healed in Chapel of Saint Roch Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 26, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/525/jpeg/24t.jpg) A niche dedicated to the healed in Chapel of Saint Roch Cemetery. Relics include casts of hands, feet, legs, head, brain, heart, ear, even a tooth. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 26, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2007/564/jpeg/13t.jpg) Mother and Child sculpture (Fernando Botero, 1988) in Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at NOMA in City Park. New Orleans, Louisiana, January 6, 2007
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/558/jpeg/11t.jpg) "Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel" house at 2523 Prytania Street in Garden District in fog. New Orleans, Louisiana, December 15, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/561/jpeg/21t.jpg) Shrine of Saint Jude in the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church at 411 North Rampart Street, a corner of Conti Street (Mortuary Chapel, "the Church of the Dead"). New Orleans, Louisiana, December 21, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/556/jpeg/10t.jpg) A statue of Saint Jude in the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church at 411 North Rampart Street, a corner of Conti Street (Mortuary Chapel, "the Church of the Dead"). New Orleans, Louisiana, December 9, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/540/jpeg/22t.jpg) Shrine of Saint Jude in the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church at 411 North Rampart Street, a corner of Conti Street (Mortuary Chapel, "the Church of the Dead"). New Orleans, Louisiana, August 5, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/513/jpeg/03t.jpg) A marble sculpture in a crypt in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, March 26, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/953/jpeg/03t.jpg) Chapel built on Vuoksa River (Andrey Pervozvanny Church, built in 2000). Vasilkovo, north from Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/456/jpeg/23t.jpg) A chapel of Saint John Bosco and a monument of archibishop Shao in the campus of Hope Haven at Barataria Boulevard, Marrero. New Orleans, Louisiana, July 9, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/513/jpeg/04t.jpg) A marble sculpture of an angel in a crypt of Chapman H. Hyams in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, March 26, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/1983/jpeg/16t.jpg) Chapel of Iverskaya Icon of a god s mother on Tsaritsynsky Proezd. Saint Petersburg, Russia, January 2, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/498/jpeg/18t.jpg) A marble sculpture of weeping angel in a mausoleum of Chapman H. Hyams in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, February 17, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/498/jpeg/03t.jpg) A marble sculpture of a blue weeping angel in a crypt of Chapman H. Hyams in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, February 12, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/406/jpeg/07t.jpg) Olginskaya Chapel recently built in Zavelichye. Pskov, Russia, August 8, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/561/jpeg/26t.jpg) Saint Mary s Chapel on Jackson Avenue near Saint Charles Avenue in Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, December 22, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2003/346/jpeg/12t.jpg) A recently built Troitskaya (Trinity) Chapel devoted to 300 jubilee of the city, at Troitskaya Square. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 25, 2003
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/449/jpeg/14t.jpg) Saint Roch Market, view from North Rampart Street in Faubourg Marigny. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 14, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2007/573/jpeg/07t.jpg) George Segal s sculpture Abraham and Isaac (with a knife) (in Memory of May 4, 1970, Kent State) near the Princeton University chapel. Princeton, New Jersey, March 7, 2007
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1945/jpeg/10t.jpg) Chapel like tomb in Novodevichye Cemetery at Moskovskiy Prospect. Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 18, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1943/jpeg/21t.jpg) A chapel in Literatorskie Mostki section of Volkovo Cemetery. Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 17, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1522/jpeg/24t.jpg) Chapel of Nikolskoe Cemetery of Alexander Nevsky Lavra. Saint Petersburg, Russia, January 2, 2015
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/497/jpeg/10t.jpg) A marble tombstone in Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2. New Orleans, Louisiana, February 11, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/440/jpeg/11t.jpg) A monument of crucifiction in Saint Joseph Cemetery near Loyola Street. New Orleans, Louisiana, March 19, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2003/346/jpeg/25t.jpg) Chapel of Saint Xenia (or Ksennia) on Smolensk Cemetery of Vasilievsky Island. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 30, 2003
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1126/jpeg/24t.jpg) Remains of a marble child s statue in City Cemetery. Bryan, Texas, December 15, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3489/jpeg/17t.jpg) Mother with a child on a mural in Balmy Alley in Mission District of San Francisco. California, March 16, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/530/jpeg/15t.jpg) A marble figure of an old man with his finger to his lips in a crypt of Charles T. Howard (one of cemetery s founders) in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, June 11, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/211/jpeg/30t.jpg) The marble tombstone with a cavity on the northern side of the Chapel of the Sepulchre in the Church of the Sepulchre in Old City. Jerusalem, the Middle East, June 28, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/439/jpeg/20t.jpg) A tomb of Lafayette Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, March 10, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/439/jpeg/19t.jpg) Graves of Lafayette Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, March 10, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1033/jpeg/19t.jpg) Resting mother with a child in Camel Market, Wholesale Markets area. Doha, Qatar, March 21, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2410/jpeg/28t.jpg) Headless marble statue with lichens on a child s tomb in City Cemetery. Bryan, Texas, December 8, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2410/jpeg/29t.jpg) Marble child s head with black and green lichens in City Cemetery. Bryan, Texas, December 8, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/541/jpeg/06t.jpg) A marble statue of a saint at Esplanade Avenue entrance of Saint Louis Cemetery No. 3. New Orleans, Louisiana, August 6, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/211/jpeg/27t.jpg) Northern wall of the Chapel of the Sepulchre in the Church of the Sepulchre in Old City with a relief in white marble representing the Saviour rising from the tomb. Jerusalem, the Middle East, June 28, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2000/156/jpeg/31t.jpg) A chapel in Literatorskie Mostki section of Volkovo Cemetery. Sankt Petersburg, Russia, October 18, 2000
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/440/jpeg/06t.jpg) Greenwood Cemetery, crossing of Hawthorn and Jessamine(?) streets. New Orleans, Louisiana, March 13, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/440/jpeg/08t.jpg) Family tomb of John T. Michel and tombs of G. W. Woltering, Leonard Newrouse and M. D. Foster in Saint Joseph Cemetery near Loyola Street. New Orleans, Louisiana, March 18, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/440/jpeg/07t.jpg) A tomb of Hiram Lodge No. 70.F. and A. M. in Masonic Cemetery near Conti Street. New Orleans, Louisiana, March 13, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/451/jpeg/15t.jpg) Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 30, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1031/jpeg/07t.jpg) Mother with a child in Camel Market, Wholesale Market area. Doha, Qatar, March 16, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/497/jpeg/22t.jpg) A marble harpist at a tomb of L. Denapolis in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, February 12, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/498/jpeg/02t.jpg) Interior of a marble crypt of B. G. Carbajal in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, February 12, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/534/jpeg/26t.jpg) A marble sphinx on a mausoleum of Brunswig in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, July 2, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/451/jpeg/18t.jpg) Old tombs in Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 30, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/451/jpeg/16t.jpg) Tombscape of Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 30, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/451/jpeg/19t.jpg) Row of tombs in Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 30, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/441/jpeg/12t.jpg) Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2(?). New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/451/jpeg/17t.jpg) Group of tombs in Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 30, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/441/jpeg/14t.jpg) A lane of Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/451/jpeg/14t.jpg) Tombs of Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1, at rain. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 30, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/441/jpeg/11t.jpg) A tour of Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/441/jpeg/13t.jpg) Tombs of Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/451/jpeg/22t.jpg) Crumbling tombs of Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 30, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/443/jpeg/04t.jpg) Front porch of Robinson House at 3rd Street in Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 14, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/460/jpeg/15t.jpg) Equestrian statue of Emperor Alexander III in front of Marble Palace. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 25, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/497/jpeg/24t.jpg) A marble statue on left side of mausoleum of Brunswig in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, February 12, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/536/jpeg/16t.jpg) St. Vincent s Infant Asylum One (Saint Vincent Guest House) (1864) at 1507 Magazine Street in Lower Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, July 10, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/438/jpeg/24t.jpg) A goose standing under an abstract sculpture, behind NOMA. New Orleans, Louisiana, February 27, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/438/jpeg/25t.jpg) A tourist photographing an outdoor sculpture of NOMA. New Orleans, Louisiana, February 27, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/451/jpeg/20t.jpg) Broken plaster of a tomb in Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 30, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/441/jpeg/15t.jpg) A cross and a tomb in Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/451/jpeg/21t.jpg) Tombs of Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2, with cityscape in background. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 30, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/445/jpeg/18t.jpg) Front porch of Robinson House at 1415 3rd Street in Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 28, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/447/jpeg/17t.jpg) Front porch of Morris-Israel House at 1331 First Street in Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 7, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/448/jpeg/09t.jpg) Front porch of Morris-Israel House at 1331 First Street in Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 11, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/448/jpeg/01t.jpg) Marble porch with wicker of Jacob L. Cureton Jr. house at 1422 Jackson Avenue in Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 9, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/497/jpeg/25t.jpg) Egyptian styled marble sphinx on right side of mausoleum of Brunswig in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, February 12, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/522/jpeg/09t.jpg) A sculpture on a tomb of David Bidwell in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 7, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/451/jpeg/13t.jpg) A junkyard corner at west entrance of Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 30, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/475/jpeg/25t.jpg) Sage Chapel and Jennie McGraw Tower of Cornell University, from the lawn over Cornell Store. Ithaca, New York, November 14, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/445/jpeg/05t.jpg) Marble porch with wicker of Jacob L. Cureton Jr. house at 1422 Jackson Avenue in Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 24, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/497/jpeg/23t.jpg) Egyptian styled marble mausoleum of Lucien Brunswig (died in 1892) in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, February 12, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/615/jpeg/21t.jpg) Tomb of T. A. Flippin (born 11/12/1868) in Chriesman Chapel Cemetery at Road 130, near Road 21. Deanville, Texas, February 2, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/615/jpeg/20t.jpg) Tomb of S. T. and B. S. Dickinson (5/24/1870 - 8/27/1877) in Chriesman Chapel Cemetery at Road 130, near Road 21. Deanville, Texas, February 2, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/563/jpeg/24t.jpg) 621 Saint Roch Street near Franklin Avenue in Faubourg Marigny. New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2, 2007
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/452/jpeg/02t.jpg) Saint Vincent Cemetery at evening, view from Soniat Street. New Orleans, Louisiana, June 1, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2006/540/jpeg/13t.jpg) Near 2526 Chartres Street near Saint Roch Avenue in Faubourg Marigny. New Orleans, Louisiana, August 5, 2006
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/441/jpeg/17t.jpg) A broken cross on a tomb of Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2 (south-west third). New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/441/jpeg/16t.jpg) High-rise tombs of Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2 (south-west third). New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2, 2005.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/452/jpeg/03t.jpg) Tombs of Saint Vincent Cemetery at evening, view from Soniat Street. New Orleans, Louisiana, June 1, 2005
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