I think we need to be careful about reading too much into burial in a white shroud. I have seen some death records that state the deceased was buried in a white shroud (usually a bed sheet /lençol: "she was wrapped in a bed sheet because she had nothing else in which to be buried...") because they simply were so poor they had nothing but rags to wear. I also think that sometimes, providing the deceased with a full set of clothes might have been a luxury, especially if you had a lot of children, some of whom approaching adolesence, who could really benefit from the "hand me downs."
On Thursday, October 9, 2014 1:08 PM, "robertaing...@gmail.com" <robertaing...@gmail.com> wrote: Doug, I don't know what you mean by nearly 100%, it would depend a lot of the custom of the place/people. Catholics, in general, do not have this custom. Unless, as someone mentioned, the person was baptized as an adult or maybe right before dying. But I never heard of such a custom in Brazil. Roberta On Sunday, September 28, 2014 9:38:44 AM UTC-7, Doug da Rocha Holmes wrote: MaryAnn, > > >That's how almost everyone was buried - nearly 100%. > > > >Doug da Rocha Holmes >Sacramento, California >Pico & Terceira Genealogist >916-550-1618 >www.dholmes.com > > > >-------- Original Message -------- >>Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Trying to decipher Obitos >>From: MaryAnn Santos <ma...@nyu.edu> >>Date: Sun, September 28, 2014 9:32 am >>To: azo...@googlegroups.com >> >> >>How weird. I've never come across that before - just a sentence that they >>were buried in the public cemetary. She must have died suddenly because she >>didn't receive the sacraments. >> >> >>Thank you for your help! >> >> >> >> >> >> >>On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:38 AM, mnk <kami...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >>Yep, that's what it says. Basically her body was wrapped in a white shroud >>and the priest accompanied the body from home to the church to be buried. >>>MNK >>> -- 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.
