Catholic cemetery description and photos - Belarus: Brest (Topic)

Catholic cemetery description and photos - Belarus: Brest. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Catholic cemetery in Brest is currently located almost in the central part of the city. Once, back in the 19th century, the land for the burial of Catholics was allocated by the authorities on the very border of the city, so that it would not interfere with urban development. Over time, the city expanded, and some of the graves were demolished, in their place are now residential houses. Currently, the total area of the cemetery is 1.8 hectares. About 3 thousand graves have survived.

The official name of the cemetery is Catholic, however, in Brest it is customary to call it Polish. Most of the cemetery burials, graves, crypts belong to the Poles.

A Polish pilot is buried in one of the old graves. This grave has become an urban legend. Old residents of the city say that Polish pilots are buried here, flew to Prague and were going to set a new record for the flight distance, but their plane got into a terrible struggle and crashed. A monument in the form of an aircraft propeller was erected over the grave. Over time, the wooden screw became dilapidated and now no one knows where the grave of the fearless pilots is.

Polish tankmen are also buried at the Catholic Cemetery. Their graves are well known. The crosses are made of tank tracks and other parts of the tank, which burned together with the tankmen who were sitting inside.

Famous aristocratic families can be found in the cemetery, famous doctors and Catholic priests are buried here. There is also a mass grave of Polish soldiers. It is dated 1920.

The oldest gravestone in the Catholic cemetery found by historians is dated to 1835. There are crypts here

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Topic: Catholic cemetery description and photos - Belarus: Brest.