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The funeral
On leaving the house, ''etxe, '', the carpenter organised the cortege, at least in Baja NavarraLower Navarre. On entering the church, the ''andere serora ''would meet it. The former represented a community marking the death of one of its own and the latter that same community who received it in a place where, by means of the liturgy, the Church would give its real meaning to death and therefore to life.
There was little variety in the funeral mass. Its most notable traits belonged to a type of “domestic” religion. They clearly appeared in the following aspects: 1) Importance of the nun sacristan who was the “mistress of ceremony”; 2) Role and active presence of the female first neighbour; 3) Seating of the people and particularly the women in the oldest tradition; 4) Use of lights, according to their different types (''ezko'', ''xirio'').