Owen Brady monument at Cathedral Cemetery. Who was Owen Brady?

            Owen Brady, his wife and  his son and wife, are all memorialized on the monument.  This is one of the most impressive monuments in Cathedral Cemetery.  Why do they have such a grand monument?

My initial impression was that the statue was a man.  On a subsequent visit, I found that "he" is a "she" wearing a robe (as do many images of biblical figures. The figure is facing away from me. 

Photo captured out the window of my car on Lancaster Avenue.   Due to changing neighborhood demographics resutling in a precipitous decline in membershihp, the church closed completely in 2017.  Once one of the largest Roman Catholic parishes in Philadelphia, Our Mother of Sorrows Church sits abandoned next to the cemetery.  Fortunately, the cemetery is still maintained and open for burials.

I found the following on the internet:

"On my way back from laying out the Peschke show at Bryn Mawr College, I stopped at the Old Cathedral Cemetery, next to Our Mother of Sorrows church on 48th & Lancaster Ave. There's a monument there that matches a type I referred to as "Steeple Cross Grave Monuments" (Dec. 14, 2011). The tomb belongs to Owen Brady (+1891) and his wife Mary (+1887). On the right side of the monument, two additional family members are marked, John I. Brady (+1907) and his wife Mary (+1906).

"This tomb is much much larger than the other two at Laurel Hill and Woodland. The columns are a red granite and the cross is engraved with a cross, an inscription "Dux Lux Rex Pax" and a crown. The base of the monument contains a small identifies its maker as "Billings & Co., Phila." This little detail should offer some insights on the dissemination of this type, its appearance and disappearance in the 1880s and 1890s."  MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS, 12-MAR-2012

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