Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Polish cemeteries
In Poland, cemeteries are much busier places than in England; graves are tended to on a daily basis. Every day the local cemetery is full of people polishing headstones and replacing flowers, and there are always people selling flowers and candles from stalls at the entrance. A walk through a Polish cemetery at night is really a beautiful and peaceful experience, nothing but a sea of candles twinkling in the dark all around you, that said, I still wouldn't like to go alone. I read that in Poland graves are rented by the church for a maximum of 40 years, then they are dug up and rented to someone else. I haven't looked at the headstones yet to find out if this seems true, and I have no idea what must happen to the bodies that are dug up but I'll do some (uh hum) digging...
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There's a national holiday in Poland, well actually there's a few, I seem to remember there being one pretty much every week.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, there's one in either October or November where people go to the graves of their relatives at night, and I don't remember much about it, but there were lots of people there gathered in the graveyards. Do you know anything about it?
Yes it's All Saints Day on 1st November. I happen to think Poland doesn't have enough national holidays, I still have to work most of the time.
ReplyDeleteUm...first I've heard of this. Am not sure!!! Will have to ask the Mrs!
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