It used to be a very common practice. But, today, even many devout Catholics in the Marianas don't do it. Time to bring it back? Absolutely!

The village of Sumay is gone. But not its cemetery. Most of the lápida (gravestones) are now nameless slabs of stone. But a few remain, in Spanish, Chamorro and English, to the extent that we can come up with a list of the people buried here :

This is a photo of the inside of the Hagåtña church around the year 1900. Notice anything? NO PEWS. You see some benches, but there are curious things about these benches.