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Cemetery restoration brings the past to light
By Jesús Ibarra October 31, 2008 San Miguel de Allende

This year, on the Day of the Dead the gates of the Panteón of San Juan de Dios will remain closed and the graves unadorned. The eighteenth-century cemetery has been closed for half a century and is normally only open on November 1 and 2, when women from the adjoining DIF office decorate the tombs and surviving family members commune with the departed. The cemetery is currently undergoing restoration and historical and anthropological study.

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