Paging Domenec / Pablo

From Another Place:

' "En la capilla ardiente se celebrarán misas durante la mañana" - I get
the gist of this, but would like to know the precise meaning.

Also, in "La conducción del cadáver tendrá lugar hoy, dia 8, a las once
y media, desde la casa mortuoria, Monte Esquinza 46 ..." what would the
correct English term be for "la casa mortuoria". Just "mortuary"
doesn't seem right. '

Any ideas, chaps?

 

In the Chapel, mass will still be celebrated during the morning.

The (how do you say moving a body from one place to another, "Driving?) driving
the body will take place today, day 8, at eleven thirty from the chapel,
Monte Esquinza 46"

I read casa mortuoria to either be "mortuary" or "house/place of mourning".

 

"capilla ardiente" is where the dead body is kept exposed until it is taken
to the cemetery.

Taking the dead body to the cemetery.

Wherever the capilla ardiente is.

TBH, all of these are words used in the rest of Spain. Northeast here death
is not that ceremonial.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Cab

Thanks chaps!

 

adj. Perteneciente o relativo al muerto o a las honras fúnebres.

Pertaining to or relative to death or funeral rites.

In this context casa means building.

In English, dunno, would it be chapel of rest? I know nothing about such
things.

Here, we have a tanatorio (tanatorium). When someone snuffs it, thay get
plonked in a building and then they have a thing called "vela" which amongst
other things means "watching over / vigil". Everyone who knew the stiff has
to attend, and they all stay there all night. The women sit inside and have
a good old laugh, while the blokes hang around outside and smoke a lot. The
next day (according to the law, it has to be no later) the whole town walks
behind the hearse all the way to the boneyard from the church to watch the
"burial". They don't bury them here, rather shove them in a concrete filing
system. When the surviving family stops paying the rent on the tomb, the
remains get buried to make room for the next tenant.

 

El depósito de cadáveres de mi amigo, tiene muchas anguilas

 

Prolly from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanatos

 

Y su aerodeslizador?

 

Something about flying lizards?

 

Right ballpark, apparently.

 

Hovercraft full of eels?

 

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