HISTORIC PHOTO: CLOSE COUPLE

With Valentine’s Day coming up, an example of how love can be eternal.

Religious divisions between Catholics and Protestants went on long after the Reformation and were obviously still strong in Roermond, Holland when a Catholic woman and Protestant man married and shared life together for thirty-eight years. Because of those divisions, they were not allowed to be buried in the same part of the cemetery when death did them part.  But the widow found a solution to that.

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