St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery
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St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery is a Eastern Catholic cemetery in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb approximately 5 miles south of Pittsburgh. It is sited on a hillside in the southwest corner of the intersection of Conner Road and Pennsylvania State Route 88.
As an ethnic parish cemetery, it primarily serves members of St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church on Pittsburgh's South Side, as well as others of Rusyn descent from the Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh.
The cemetery is best known as the burial site of the American artist Andy Warhol and his parents.
[edit] Trivia
For years now some Andy Warhol fans make pilgrimage to this cemetery and leave a token soup can on his grave stone (see tombstone image). On the 20th anniversary of the artist's death, poet Peter Oresick published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette a poem calling attention to this ritual, prompting the New York Times to do a feature story on the practice (see External links).
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[edit] External links
- Location in Google Maps
- Poem "Andy Warhol for Pilgrims" [1]
- New York Times feature on Andy Warhol cemetery rituals [2]
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