St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York

St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City is the seat of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and a parish church, located at 50th Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Burials

• The eight deceased Archbishops of New York, six of them Cardinals, are buried in a crypt under the high altar. The Cardinals' honorary hats, called galeros, hang from the ceiling over their tombs. Cardinal Spellman's hat was the one worn by Pope Pius XII when he was a Cardinal.
• Blessed Pierre Toussaint (1766 - 1853) paid for the reconstruction of old St. Peter's Church (the first Catholic church in New York, founded 1785) after it burned, and helped raise money for the construction of the old St. Patrick's Cathedral in lower Manhattan (which was the second Catholic church in New York, founded 1809). Though during his life he had been turned away from the church because of his race, he was interred in the burial grounds at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral. John Cardinal O'Connor had Toussaint's remains moved from the cemetery of old St. Patrick's into the crypt below the main altar of the Fifth Avenue of the new St. Patrick's Cathedral. The process of canonization of Pierre Toussaint is underway.
• Archbishop Fulton Sheen (May 8, 1895 - December 9, 1979) - most noted as host of his radio show, "The Catholic Hour" and his television show, "Life is Worth Living," He was Bishop of the Rochester Diocese but was also an Auxiliary Bishop for the Archdiocese of New York from 1951-1966.