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By Anthony Carpinello, Director of Diocesan Cemeteries. - The faithful in the Diocese of Providence have one of the finest and most beautiful mausoleums available of any across the nation to consider when choosing a final resting place. Rhode Island is a state where the majority of its population is Catholic, so the diocese has more than 125 churches and 32 cemeteries. And even though Rhode Island is the smallest state in our country, our diocese of the 15th largest in the country. (Photo: diocesan office of Catholic Cemeteries)

CRANSTON — At the western end of St. Ann Cemetery, in a bucolic grove, stands the Diocese of Providence’s newest place of rest for the dearly departed.

CRANSTON — The dust was still settling this week during a tour of the new Saints Peter & Paul Mausoleum. Construction dust, that is, as workers were putting the finishing touches on the 22,000-square-foot structure that Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin will dedicate at 11 a.m. Saturday. (G. Wayne Miller, Providence Journal)

The Office of Catholic Cemeteries for the Diocese of Providence is offering crypts and niches for sale in a new mausoleum that is designed to evoke the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Providence.

Site preparation is underway on a new place for the faithful to express their reverence for departed loved ones with the groundbreaking for a new mausoleum at St. Ann Cemetery on the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, Tuesday, May 1.

Tuesday, May 1, 2018 – 1:00 PM at St. Ann Cemetery, 73 Church Street, Cranston.