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RE: Interesting Graves At The Cemetery
Lovely photos, I really like the third one. Check this out, I took this today. The middle stone... he was a bishop, an archbishop, and he was murdered somewhere in Alaska in 1886!
Thank you Keith for posting this amazing photo. I've never seen a grave with three stones, like yours. Here at the cemetery you lease a place of a certain surface, usually the same for everyone and that's why you see almost identical graves. In the past this was different. People had more space to do graves as they liked. Now most of the cemeteries are full and lack of space is a huge problem.
Cremation is not very popular here, people are buried in coffins, that requires a certain amount of space.
It's a small space outside a cathedral, not a regular cemetery. I think all three of these stones have to do with the history of the church.
Oh, that explains a lot.