Cemeteries.—Cemeteries may be purchased, held, and owned under the liberal statutes for the owner-ship of church property, already explained. Or, they may be purchased, held, and owned by cemetery corporations formed under a general law, by which their land holdings are limited to 320 acres...
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The Church also has jurisdiction over cemeteries, which are blessed canonically. For unbelievers, apostates, and other persons by law excluded from ecclesiastical sepulture, a separate cemetery is provided, usually near the Catholic cemetery, and under the control of the civil authority. In Spain,...
is contained in Arts. 651 to 954 of the Civil Code. Cemeteries are under the authority of charitable associations and the parish priests. Under the Resolutions of November 20, 1868 and January 19, 1869, the Municipal Councils of the republic are instructed to establish and maintain laic ...
Gregory IX employed the new general on political missions at Florence and Rome, authorized the Minorites to lay out their own cemeteries (July 26, 1227), and charged them with the direction and maintenance of the Poor Clares (December 1, 1227). In 1228 and the succeeding years, Elias of ...