Rev. J.M. Biler, 1839-1873; died assisting the sick during great Yellow Fever outbreak in 1873. This is a cenotaph/memorial and not a burial, as he originally was buried in the Daughters of the Cross Cemetery at St. Vincent Academy and Convent on Fairfield Avenue, and then was disinterred and reburied at Forest Park Cemetery on St. Vincent Avenue in a dead-of-the-night ceremony in the 1960s when the property was sold to allow for creation of the Sears Roebuck Store. His actual burial may be viewed at Forest Park Cemetery. Note the difference in the spelling of the name. It is spelled most often as Biler, though his crypt marker is LeBiler. Modern church writings offer his first name as Jean-Marie. In 2021, he and fellow priests who perished in the 1873 outbreak were on a path to sainthood.
Rev. J.M. Biler, 1839-1873; died assisting the sick during great Yellow Fever outbreak in 1873. This is a cenotaph/memorial and not a burial, as he originally was buried in the Daughters of the Cross Cemetery at St. Vincent Academy and Convent on Fairfield Avenue, and then was disinterred and reburied at Forest Park Cemetery on St. Vincent Avenue in a dead-of-the-night ceremony in the 1960s when the property was sold to allow for creation of the Sears Roebuck Store. His actual burial may be viewed at Forest Park Cemetery. Note the difference in the spelling of the name. It is spelled most often as Biler, though his crypt marker is LeBiler. Modern church writings offer his first name as Jean-Marie. In 2021, he and fellow priests who perished in the 1873 outbreak were on a path to sainthood.
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