{"id":311267,"date":"2019-11-04T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=311267"},"modified":"2019-11-04T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T20:00:07","slug":"remembrance-of-departed-ones-draws-hundreds-to-cemeteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/remembrance-of-departed-ones-draws-hundreds-to-cemeteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance of departed ones draws hundreds to cemeteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-311267 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/remembrance-of-departed-ones-draws-hundreds-to-cemeteries\/cemettery-tanapag-morning-2\/'>Cemettery Tanapag morning 2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-311269'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Tanapag cemetery in the morning.  (Iva Maurin)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/remembrance-of-departed-ones-draws-hundreds-to-cemeteries\/tanapag-afternoon-2\/'>Tanapag afternoon 2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-311270'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Tanapag cemetery in the afternoon.  (Iva Maurin)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/remembrance-of-departed-ones-draws-hundreds-to-cemeteries\/tanapag-afternoon\/'>Tanapag afternoon<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-311271'>\n\t\t\t\tThe many gravesites at the Tanapag cemetery are decorated with flowers. (Iva Maurin)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/remembrance-of-departed-ones-draws-hundreds-to-cemeteries\/veterans-cemetery\/'>veterans cemetery<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-311272'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Veterans Cemetery in Marpi. (Iva Maurin)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The morning of All Saints\u2019 Day last Nov. 1, 2019, started early for family members who woke up early to clean their departed loved ones\u2019 grave sites, to prepare for the rest of their family and friends who also came later in the day, to honor and pay respect to departed loved ones.<br \/>\nIt was peaceful and quiet at the Veterans Cemetery in San Roque, as well as at the Cemit\u00e9rio in Tanapag, with grave sites decorated with flower and candle offerings, as part of the Roman Catholic tradition of honoring the dead. <\/p>\n<p>A man, who asked for anonymity, and who was up early to paint his loved one\u2019s grave, said that mostly everyone on the island traditionally celebrates All Saints\u2019 Day and All Souls Day to remember their loved ones who have already passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Ramon Dela Cruz was also early at the cemetery in Tanapag, putting flowers on his late granddaughter\u2019s grave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here for our lost loved ones, once a year, every All Souls Day,\u201d Dela Cruz said. \u201cI came here for my granddaughter. She died two and a half years after she was born. We always do this every year to come and ask our loved ones to guide us and watch us always.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Priests from the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa also go to the cemeteries on the island to pray for the souls of the departed as well. <\/p>\n<p>All Souls Day, which is celebrated on Nov. 2, as well as All Saints\u2019 Day, are observed in the predominantly Catholic CNMI as a day of remembrance and commemoration. All Souls Day traditionally end with a Roman Catholic Mass at the Chalan Kanoa Cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning of All Saints\u2019 Day last Nov. 1, 2019, started early for family members&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}