St. Martinville Church. by jocko500

Photography • Collage • posted on Jul 29, 2007

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this church was finded in the 1700's. I do not know if the building is that old. As you see there graves right up next to the church I never saw this. I read about it. Most the time it some one that give a lot of money to be bury there. I did see one of the top prist that work there was one of them bury next to the church. I took a photo of the oldest grave I ever saw 1817. It in French and I like to know what it reads. Plus I saw the date and how it was writen on the grave. Wonder too if this the way the French still write the date like this or is this a old way of writeing dates? I know that the way of writeing chages and meaning of words too as time goes on. just look at a dictionary of the 1860's and one now. thanks for looking and comments

Comments (42)

Valerie-Ducom

9:40PM | Sun, 29 July 2007

Oh yes, very beautiful collage on this place and excellent color ! Good week :)

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three_grrr

10:30PM | Sun, 29 July 2007

Very cool, I think you are right, I think those that gave big chunks of money to the church got to be buried against the church walls like this, kind of like a real place of honor. I'm not sure how far back the graves go in our area in some of the old cemetaries, I should go and look around, take some photos, I love old cememteries! Always wanted to buried in one I see along a highway to where we used camp.

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soffy

1:04AM | Mon, 30 July 2007

wonderful collage of this beautiful old church,excellent shots***

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evinrude

1:13AM | Mon, 30 July 2007

Excellent presentation!

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jif3d

3:11AM | Mon, 30 July 2007

That's freaky, burying them right next to the building ! I've never that before, thanx for the enlightenment Jock ! Great series of capture & ~Cheers~ :o)

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