hello Pinto bhai instead of going to the grave yard and findings faults why dont you go to the people who are suffering and help them
DON'T DISTURB THE DEATH ---------------------------------------- > Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 22:31:52 +0530 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Goanet] Marital status in death > > In mid-May this year I was in Mangalore. On a visit to the local > church in Vamanjoor, about 12 kms. from Mangalore City, I strayed into > the graveyard. I noticed a most interesting feature of the > inscriptions on the crosses as well as the marble slabs on the wall. > If the deceased was a married person then the date of his/her marriage > is clearly mentioned between the Birth and Death dates. > > For example this is an actual inscription on a cross... > > --------- > R.I.P. > > ALBERT SUNNY LOBO > > BIRTH: > 30.7.1954 > > MARRIED: > 1.1.1985 > > DEATH: > 5.7.2005 > --------- > > Of course this is not a universal rule but quite common. Also on the > marble slabs on the 'niche' wall. > > Their niches incidentally are not like ours here in Goa where only a > few bones are exhumed and preserved 3 years after the death. In > Mangalore the whole coffin itself is put into the niche, and at the > time of burial - not three years later. > > Of course there are many other peculiarities of how the Roman Catholic > faith is practised in Mangalore. For example footwear is kept outside > the church - but not compulsorily so. > > But let's leave that study for another day. What I would like to know > is why when worldwide the date of Death and Birth are mentioned on > graves or memorials, why only in Mangalore is the Date of Marriage > given prominence. Is the state of having lived married or unmarried > more important in Mangalore than elsewhere in the world? > > Cheers! > > Cecil > > ======== _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us
