Billie Holiday Buried in Catholic Cemetery in Bronx

Billie Holiday Buried in Catholic Cemetery in Bronx July 17, 2009

Here’s something interesting I just found out: Billie Holiday is buried at St. Raymond’s Cemetery in the Bronx. She was baptized in St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Baltimore, founded in 1863 as the first African-American parish in the United States.

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