Liliana, Not sure about the Azores, but in other areas of Europe after a number of years this is true. My friends in Germany told me that if they wanted to continue to have their father remain where he was, they could either pay again or the area would be reused. Not sure what they did with the remains - not sure if he ever had a stone. I am very lucky that my for my family members in Croatia, they kept the stones and lined the perimeter of the cemetery with the old stones so I was able to find many of my family's stones which, of course, I took pictures of.
"E" On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Liliana Harris <lilianah...@gmail.com>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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
