Precious Blood Church Fire of 1875 – Holyoke’s Greatest Catastrophe will be a presentation in the Community Room at the South Hadley Public Library that will happen on Wednesday March 5 2025 from 6 to 7 PM.  The event will be about the May 27 1875 fire at the Precious Blood Church in Holyoke Massachusetts.  55 of the 70 people that died due to the fire are buried at the Precious Blood Cemetery of South Hadley.  The presenter Robert Comeau will discuss the fire, the victims, and the burials.  He has been able to find the vast majority of the birth and marriage documents of the victims and has likewise been able to find the burial records of the 15 people that were not buried in South Hadley.  This same presentation will take place again in the Community Room of the Holyoke Public Library on Thursday May 29 2025 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM in case that you cannot make the first event or prefer a Holyoke venue.