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Although some people use the better-known term cementerio, meaning “cemetery,” camposanto is a word still used in many families.
The same can be said for altars, nacimientos (nativity scenes), and camposanto (cemetery) graves, which are assembled with artistic care, while always communicating a devout religious sentiment.
Spaniards and the clergy were allowed to be buried in the missionary churches, whereas the mestizos (people of mixed race) and Indians were buried in the camposanto located in front or to the right of the church.
See also Altars; Camposanto; Descansos; Hábito; Mandas; Religious Folk Art; Santos
In the 13th-century cloistered cemetery of the Camposanto (Holy Ground — believed to be filled with sacred dirt brought back from the Holy Land during the Crusades), note the Gothic tabernacle enclosing a Madonna and Saints.