Overview
- The Catholic Diocese of Richmond scheduled a public reinterment for Thursday, Oct. 23 at 2 p.m. at Hollywood Cemetery.
- A public Mass honoring Eliza Monroe Hay is set for 11 a.m. the same day at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Richmond.
- Her remains arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport on May 21 after recovery from an unmarked, long-neglected grave at Paris’s Père Lachaise Cemetery.
- Retired teacher Barbara VornDick and the Bringing Eliza Home Project led a six-year research and retrieval effort that launched publicly in 2023.
- Hay will be laid to rest in the Monroe family plot beside her father, according to the diocesan announcement.