I'm glad that my great grandparents bought their plot. As well our family was lucky to have a mausoleum to store the bones.
I have a relative that works at one if the cemeteries in Graciosa and I never heard him say anything about taking a body that had not decomposed to the ocean. The ritual is if the body is still intact after 7 years they call a priest to re bless the body. If after 7 years the body has still not decomposed they are considered a saint. What I can't remember is if they keep the body in the ground. I do know that the family is not informed at the first 7 years again can't remember what happens at the 14 year mark. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 23, 2014, at 10:05 AM, Antonio Roque <[email protected]> > wrote: > > My father died in S. Miguel, we bought the plot and did a few things in the > grave, had we not done that after 7 years they would have opened up the grave > and taken his bones to a crypt > >> On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 4:02:04 PM UTC-4, Liliana Harris wrote: >> I had thought I would travel to the Azores this summer and do a little >> research in the cemeteries. Now I read (again, I will admit, fiction) that >> the people dig up (all?) the bodies after a certain number of years. Can >> this possibly be true, especially in a Catholic culture? Why? Where would >> they put the bodies? Would the headstones remain? > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right > that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
