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Some neighborhoods had rezadores or rezadoras, spiritual leaders who led the community in prayer for funerals, saints’ day celebrations and whenever the priest was unavailable.
Los Penitentes cared for the sick, arranged funerals, and conducted the religious rituals associated with wakes.
Aberdeen, the island’s oldest settlement, once a pirate lair, is home to the “floating population” — the boat people who spend their entire lives on the junks in the harbor, some proudly claiming never to have set foot on land (except for funerals, which don’t count).
Thanks to Vatican II (and one of its little-noted consequences, an ebbing of American anti-Catholicism), Catholics unself-consciously socialize with other Christians and attend their christenings, weddings, and funerals.
In other parts of the Southwest this style of cooking is reserved for special events such as weddings, funerals, and large family gatherings.