Francis McFarland and Thomas Galberry were reinterred in crypts in the Cathedral of Saint Joseph

1. This report contradicts the article published at Thomas Galberry’s death, which stated that Galberry was already in the crypt in the cathedral undercroft. If Galberry was subsequently moved to an “older crypt beneath the altars” as this report states (or perhaps wasn’t put in the crypt as originally reported) is unknown.
2. It wasn’t clear when McFarland’s and Galberry’s bodies were removed from their original interment sites, if Galberry’s body was moved at all, of course.

1. Francis McFarland was buried in front of the Convent of Saint Joseph after his funeral on October 15, 1874.
2. Thomas Galberry’s body was placed in one of 16 receptacles in the crypt behind the basement altar following his funeral on October 15, 1878.

The rectory will be broken into tonight.

The Cathedral of Saint Joseph will be consecrated on May 8, 1892.

“It is customary in the Roman Catholic Church to bury bishops in their cathedrals.”

1. Following his funeral, it wasn’t clear which crypt was used for Galberry’s body, but it was noted that McFarland would be placed in the first crypt in the lower row. Galberry would then occupy the second in the lower row.
2. Neither William Tyler nor Bernard O’Reilly were placed in the new crypts. The reason apparently offered by the Courant was that both had died prior to the construction of the cathedral; however, Tyler died in 1849 and had been buried in Providence, while O’Reilly, as noted by the article, “was lost at sea and his body was not recovered.”  Tyler was reinterred in Bloomfield with the other bishops, while a plaque was installed there to commemorate O’Reilly’s death.

Unattributed.  “Their bodies in crypts,” Hartford Courant, May 6, 1892, page 3.