This Saturday, November 2 at the beginning of the afternoon, several parishioners accompanied…
This Saturday, November 2, at the beginning of the afternoon, several parishioners accompanied Father Marc Prunier to the Brossac cemetery. Former parish priest of Ruffec, retired and now attached to the south of the diocese, he first invited everyone to pay their respects in front of a tomb: that of Father Maurice Donnet, who lived in the presbytery and died there at the age of 87 years old, before being buried in Brossac in 2001. Then he went to bless the tombs and vaults of different families present. An increasingly rare tradition.
“I knew that this had already been done but the habit seemed to have been lost,” confides Danièle Airiau, parish relay of Brossac, responsible for reception. This year, in the southern Charente deanery, in the parishes of Aubeterre, Chalais and Brossac, the idea was to organize again, as in the past, visits and blessings in a certain number of cemeteries during the post- noon of All Saints' Day and the next day, All Souls' Day.
In Brossacais, nine municipalities were able to find a niche and offer a moment of contemplation to their parishioners with the deceased.
“It’s also the opportunity to discover a perfectly maintained cemetery with now grassy paths,” notes Alberte Bideau, who supports Danièle Airiau. But also the oldest part of this cemetery, opened in 1843 to replace the one around the Notre-Dame church, which keeps interesting traces of illustrious Brossacaise families.
