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== Signs of salvation or damnation ==
=== The countenance Countenance of the corpse ===
.Whether it was a peaceful or troubled death and the countenance of the corpse have often been taken as signs of salvation or damnation.
In Hondarribia (G), they said that those bodies that remained incorrupt at the end of so many years were of saints<ref>AEF, III (1923) p. 91.</ref>.
In Rigoitia (B), an incorrupt body taken to be a saint, popularly known as ''gorputz santuz''<ref>''Iturriza already mentioned it, indicating that it was unearthed during the rebuilding of the church in around 1550. See Juan Ramón de ITURRIZA. Historia General de Vizcaya y Epítome de las Encartaciones. Bilbao, 1938, p. 420 .''</ref>, is to be found in the sacristy in the parish Church of Santa María.
== Practices to ensure salvation ==
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