Brookland Bed and Breakfast

First Floor - Double

The Mount St. Sepulchre Franciscan Monastery is located at 14th and Quincy Streets.  It includes gardens and a replica of the catacombs in Rome, an archive, a library, as well as bones of Saint Benignus of Armagh brought from the Roman Catacombs and originally in the Cathedral of Narni, Italy.

The Very Reverend Charles A. Vassani (1831–1896) was the first to establish the Commissariat of the Holy Land, in 1880, located in New York at 143 W. 95th Street. It was from this building that Rev. Vassani and Father Godfrey Schilling began to plan to build a "Holy Land in America" and a Holy Sepulchre, which they envisioned crowning a high hill on Staten Island, overlooking the entrance to New York's harbor. The Staten Island plan never materialized. They realized their dream on a wooded hilltop in Brookland. In 1897, Fr. Godfrey purchased the McCeeney Estate in Brookland in order to found a monastery and construct his church.