{"id":28,"date":"2007-11-01T14:02:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T19:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2007-11-01T14:02:48","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T19:02:48","slug":"tombstones-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"021. tombstones in english"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Lots of Irish Catholic immigrants came to Argentina along with all the Italians &amp; Spanish. For most of its history, only Catholics could be buried in Recoleta Cemetery so any new arrivals who practiced Catholicism qualified. These aren&#8217;t easy to find&#8230; pay special attention to nooks &amp; crannies. Simple tombstones with English inscriptions hide among the grandeur of monster-size mausoleums.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The tombstone below reads: &#8220;Sacred to the memory of Rose Casey, native of C\u00ba [County] Westmeath Ireland, who died [date unreadable] March 1881, aged 50 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Rose Casey, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711B73.jpg\" alt=\"Rose Casey, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Another reads: &#8220;Sacred to the memory of Patrick McLoughin who departed this life on the 29th of Augost [sic] 1862, aged 40 years. His beloved wife dedicates this to his memory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Patrick McLoughin, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711B61.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick McLoughin, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Another with a small, neglected statue states: &#8220;Sacred to the memory of Thomas Kenny, born in Ireland on the 5th Dec 1796 and died Feb 15th 1857. His children have erected this monument to his memory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Thomas Kenny, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711B78.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Kenny, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"338\" height=\"454\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of Irish Catholic immigrants came to Argentina along with all the Italians &amp; Spanish. For most of its history, only Catholics could be buried&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=28\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">021. tombstones in english<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-white","category-history","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}