HermitHogan
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Religion requires belief on faith alone, which is dangerous.
No doubt they are in the same place now! I assume... Love the story!This very famous photo has circulated on the Net for years. Most recently it has been mis-identified as an Irish couple buried in separate cementeries due to their different religions.
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The photo is real, but it was NOT Ireland - it was Roermond, Netherlands. The husband, Jacobus Warnerus Constantinus van Gorkum, died in 1880, and was buried in the Protestant section of the cemetery. His wife, Josephine van Aefferden, passed away in 1888, but could not be buried with him due to the religious segregation in the cemetery at that time. Although the wall divides their graves, they are nonetheless in the same cemetery, but in separate sections.