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The help of neighbours was essential when a death occurred in a household. In reality, the neighbours began to help as the person was dying and continued to do so even after the body was laid to rest. The neighbours were in charge of notifying and accompanying the priest to administer the Viaticum and Anointing, and also the doctor. When the death occurred, they prepared the body and prepared the room, helped to watch over the corpse and led the prayers, carry out the household tasks, notify the other relatives who lived in the town and further away, check the state of the corpse way to the church and get it ready if necessary; be there when the coffin was taken out and accompanied it along the route, acting as bearers, carrying the wreath at the head of the cortege, sometimes the parish cross and also the axes taken along with the coffin; made offerings of lights and bread and also said Mass in memory of the deceased, in some places, dug the grave and filled it in, and once the cortege had returned, burnt the pallet, and prepared the food and the venue for the wake.

== The parish cross in the bereaved household ==