Monday, April 06, 2009

Church played an essential role in everyone's life

Social life would have been shaped by the season, by custom and by religious beliefs. 

The church played an essential role in everyone's life. On Sundays and feast days the people of this place would have walked through the open fields to the church, which was enlarged and 'modernised' over time. They would also be baptised and married and finally in procession for burial.

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