I agree with Mike that unbaptized babies were rare. Also the people buried in St. Bernard's really don't appear to be separated from their families & they most certainly did have decent burials. I never would have known the part across the top was any different then the rest of the cemetery if someone from that area would not have explained what it was. I have different areas of the family all over that whole cemetery so if I were to have found someone there, I never would have thought anything of it. There is nothing that says or stands out to make anyone think it isn't part of the cemetery. I however would have preferred finding a family member close (in what appears to be the same cemetery then having to go across or to a completely different town to find them. Catholics also have the option of being buried in a non catholic cemetery with their non catholic spouse. If my husband wasn't Catholic I think I would also prefer a place like that so we could be buried together & still in the same cemetery where the rest of my family is. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bea and Stan Rutherford" <beair@verizon.net> To: "slbearer" <slbearer@comcast.net> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Potters Field & Catholics > Hu All, > I was born raised and still am of Catholic Faith ....I have never heard of > them burying a baby in a Potters Field because it was not baptised > yet....nor for that I have never heard of them even having a " Potters > Field " To seperate families.............So So So sad that somewhere that > has happened ! > Everyone has a right to have a decent burial - Baptised or whatever they > may have done with their lives.....agree ? > That I know of our church cemetery has no potters field ! I sure will > check into that ! > Kindly > Bea > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "slbearer" <slbearer@comcast.net> > To: <pacambri@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 10:17 AM > Subject: [PACAMBRI] Potters Field & Catholics > > >> Marilyn wrote on here once that there is a "Potters Field" above the >> cemetery in St. Bernard's Cemetery & that it was for the burial of babies >> who did not get baptised before they died, or for other ("Catholics" I >> think) that had done criminal acts. Do they have a "Potters Fields" in >> all Catholic Cemeteries? Does that person in that Potters Field have had >> to have belonged to a Catholic family? The requirement to being buried >> in a Catholic Cemetery is still to have been baptised correct? >> - - - - - - - - - - >>