I heard this in a movie. I'm just curious if it is true?
2007-05-08 19:11:40 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Yes it's true. I'm from pennsylvania where the really old graveyards are. They actually have a special grassy, uncared for place to put suicides. Away from the other tombstones....like on the other side of the street. It's.....sad....I guess. We wouldn't want the dead sinners to give the dead other people bad ideas or anything.
2007-05-08 19:20:41 · answer #1 · answered by Helen Scott 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's true but..there was no racial prejudice in it! simply the burial area was located behind or on a side of a church. The land was property of that religious community and anyone else (Muslim, Jew, unknown foreigners, and people who had renounced to be part of the community, i.e.suicides, unbelievers) were put in a side area "Terra sconsacrata". , the same thing happened and it happens now, in cemeteries belonging to other religions. The burial land of each religious community is "sacred land" for the believers.
These cemeteries lasted till XIX century when the Napoleonic Law introduced the "state cemetery" where all the people had to be accepted. Nowadays I know that in major cities there are areas for the minority religious groups or dedicated cemeteries.
2007-05-15 17:13:54 · answer #2 · answered by odisseo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, typically unbaptised babies, suicide deaths and people living in an excommunicated state weren't buried in the blessed part of the cemetary. This was because it was thought that these people wouldn't go to heaven, and that they would share in the ressurection so why bury them in consecrated ground.
2007-05-09 12:12:16 · answer #3 · answered by 29 characters to work with...... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes ,it is true.Unbaptized babies,bastard children, sinners,etc.were put in these graves away from the supposed saved . In some places the blacks or Negroes were buried in the back or even in totally different cemeteries altogether.Suicides,and such were thought to be not saved.
2007-05-13 15:12:15 · answer #4 · answered by Wow!guitar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes,the sinners were not allowed a decent burial.they were often given an unmarked grave at the back sometimes even outside the cemetry where noone would know and pay respect to them.
2007-05-09 02:59:34 · answer #5 · answered by victoria 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the same here in England. The area at east end of the church was reserved for suicides, unbaptised babies etc.
2007-05-09 03:43:08 · answer #6 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah...it's true...i've heard about it from my parents...they used to do it in olden times
2007-05-17 01:58:59 · answer #7 · answered by ineedinformation 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don"t really think it"s true.
2007-05-16 21:07:56 · answer #8 · answered by Talazia G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋