Gurda grew up on South 34th Street, just blocks from the cemetery, and recalled the landscape of his childhood stretching ...

What is not generally known is that Washington played a role as a founding father of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and cemetery, the oldest Catholic parish and cemetery in Virginia.

The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, I and II Maccabees - plus sections of Esther and Daniel which are absent from the Protestant OT.

As the Fathers of the church taught, the figures of baptism in the Old Testament were given to authorize and explain baptism.