By Jack Brammer

Kentucky Lantern

On a sun-splashed late morning Tuesday, former Kentucky Democratic Party Chair Jerry Lundergan, along with his wife, Charlotte, and several others, heaped shovelfuls of dirt heavenward to break ground for a multimillion-dollar religious garden and 70-foot cross at St. Patrick’s Cemetery.

Lundergan, a well-known Lexington entrepreneur who owns several companies in Lexington in the food services and hospitality industry and emergency disaster services, wants to turn six acres in the front of the historic cemetery in the village of Washington in his hometown of Maysville into a religious site that he thinks may attract tens of thousands of people each year.

The project will feature a replication of the Garden of Gethsemane near Jerusalem where the New Test

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