St. Michael's has an extensive cemetery complex. Behind the church is a veritable city of the dead. A second church built across the street has another large cemetery. I was amazed at some of the family tombs and will show them in the next blog. In all the cemeteries we've visited over here, family members are responsible for upkeep, and most graves are carefully cultivated and landscaped with shrubs and flowers. There are a few graves overgrown with weeds, of course, and I wonder if they had no living descendants or if their entire family moved away. Every few rows sits a large square wire container for dead flowers. Every one we've seen contains several old bouquets, and many graves have fresh flowers. It's obvious that many people here venerate their dead and are good caretakers of their final resting place.
Some pictures of the huge cemetery behind St. Michael's.
At the rear of the cemetery are some tiny chapels.
Directly across the street is another church,
part of the St. Michael's complex.
This part of St. Michael's was built in 1912.
The cemetery behind this church is almost as large
as the enormous one behind the older church. Here
is the entrance to the second cemetery.
Two views of the cemetery.
The World War I Memorial.
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