Photo-a-Day  (Monday, 23rd September, 2024)

The graves at the back and to the right are my sister and brother in .law, and their young son..Shaun Andrews…

Those sisters lived a long life and prayers are not a lot to ask for.

May they rest in peace.

Brings back the lovely, true story in last year's news of Lisa Tinkler from Middlesborough. Lisa became sister Mary Elizabeth at the age of 19. Some decades passed untill one day she was left alone with a visiting monk named friar Robert, while another sister had gone to answer the phone. Sister Mary Elizabeth and friar Robert accidently brushed sleeves during the brief encounter. She said "it unleashed a jolt of energy" They were in love for seven years before making the decision to leave their monastic life and get married.

Is this a nun's grave or a nuns' grave? The tombstone is giving 7 names. I find it difficult to believe that 7 people would be in the same grave.

I would have thought that Sister of Notre Dame would have been buried in a Catholic graveyard.

That is the Catholic section my parents are in that part.
Fr Lappin is quite near there as well.

Yes, I've noticed Shaun Edwards brothers grave, and the Riley brothers (Wigan Wrestlers) in the same section.
It's a funny thing religion.

Owd Reekie and Tommy Pilky: Double plot.
Grave numbers 11-1 and 11-2 are Roman Catholic.
Four of the sisters rest in 11-1.
The other three rest in 11- 2.

Or as Billy Connolly put it 'do they think the corpses are going walk up in the night and start fighting?'

Veronica mentions that Father Lappin is near there as well. Does he have his own plot and, if so, why would he have his own but seven good sisters are crammed together down the same hole? Does anybody know the answer or have an opinion. At face value it does not seem right.

Paul P go and find out in the Cemetery index which is on here and available to look at. There’s no need for silly comments either from anyone - have some respect for the dead..

PaulP,
This is misogyny at it's worst. In my church all the deceased Parish Priest's are buried very prominently at the front of the church so you have to see their graves every time you go in or out but the nuns are tucked away in a remote corner of the graveyard behind the church.

The sisters may NOT be "crammed together"....it may be that they, or at least some of them, were cremated and their ashes are interred there, which would not take up much room. Also, it appears to be a double-width grave. Father Lappin's grave is probably a single-width grave and he may not have had any relatives to join him in there. I don't imagine it will trouble any of them anyway by now! I don't know if this story is true or an urban myth, but I heard a tale of two ladies chatting in The Muffin Man Bakery on Park Road about where they were going to be buried, (Gidlow Cemetery being the nearest), and one of the ladies was shocked to hear that the other one had chosen to be buried in Wigan Cemetery in Lower Ince. "Worr ar't tha' gooin' theer for?", she asked.... "Tha'll not know anybody!"

Catholic Churches don’t have graveyards. The Clergy are buried in the Cemeteries of the towns where the churches are.
It’s not very respectful to call the grave ‘ a hole’ either. My parents are interred in Gidlow like many other Wiganers.

I have never known such disrespect for the dead..shame on you all.

I have reviewed the comments in this thread and genuinely cannot see anyone showing disrespect for the dead. My own comment was an observation and asking a question. Nothing wrong with that Maureen. Furthermore, a grave is a hole in the ground. This is the fact of the matter and it is not disrespectful to say so.

Stick to your belief Paul and I’ll stick to mine.

Maureen, I'm sorry if my remark upset you.....I was merely trying to point out to those who said the sisters were "crammed in" whilst the priest had a grave to himself, that it might not have been deliberately done that way. In Ince Cemetery, my grandparents and great-grandparents are buried in one grave, whilst some people are buried alone, perhaps having no family, and my eldest brother, who only lived for a week, is in a communal grave. People just did what they could afford to. With the way today's comments were going, combined with all the depressing funeral plan ads we are bombarded with on tv at the moment, my story of the two ladies in the bakery was just to lighten the mood and bring a smile.

I have “ reviewed’’ your comment Paul P
A grave is not a hole. The ground was dug and a grave was created and filled with earth and the remains of loved ones. People lay flowers on a grave not a hole.
I’ll remind you of what you said ”seven good sisters crammed in a hole” ! They were interred in a grave prepared for them “not crammed in a hole”as you say. Have some subtlety in what you say.

Irene,you didn’t upset me at all,Paul did with his choice of words..of course people had to do what they could afford to ..my grandparents and great grandparents are also buried in one grave..not a hole as has been horribly stated..to call it a hole is nothing but a sin…I would like to remind Paul that the ‘hole’ was duly blessed before interment took place…show a bit of decency Paul.

There are graveyards at Catholic churches in Standish, Parbold and Ashton-in -Makerfield !! Mary.