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From: "Carol Lambert" <>
Subject: RE: [Q-R] RE: Religious Question/Off Topic?
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:39:51 -0000


My husband's two baby sisters died before having been baptized and had to be
buried outside the churchyard on unconsecrated ground.


>From: "Linda Maitland" <>
>To:
>Subject: RE: [Q-R] RE: Religious Question/Off Topic?
>Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 22:17:08 -0700
>
>In the last church film I read, St. Patrick's in Quebec City in the
>1880s, there was reference to two burials in unconsecrated ground.
>
>One was a young man of 22 years of age who had committed suicide. The
>burial reads in part, "having received the Coroner's permit have had
>interred in unconsecrated ground in the cemetery." The other burial in
>unconsecrated ground was that of a stillborn baby; the mother died too,
>and she was buried in consecrated ground.
>
>I had always heard that the unbaptised and people who commit suicide
>could not be buried in consecrated ground, these two burials are the
>first references I've seen to this fact.
>
>Linda
>Vancouver, BC
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shirley E Rancourt [mailto:]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 11:51 AM
> > To:
> > Subject: [Q-R] RE: Religious Question/Off Topic?
> >
> >
> > I read an interesting article in a book I have and I thought
> > I would share
> > with you alll.
> > In one of our Catholic Cemetery, there is a gate rusted shut for many
> > years,
> > in a far corner. It is known as the Suicide Gate.A person who
> > took their
> > own
> > life was believed to have committed a grave sin and could not
> > be buried in
> > consecrated ground, so they were brought in by the back gate
> > and buried
> > in area set off cemetery with no markers for graves. Of
> > course it is no
> > longer
> > used today. Has anyone else ever heard of this?
> > Shirley : (
> >
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