#WritersCoffeeClub 1/29 Which phrase, paragraph, or page are you most proud of writing this month?'Until quite recently, there used to be a second, smaller graveyard in Reith, the parish village of the outer valley estate in the Alpbachgrund valley through which the Alpbach stream rolls down from the Plaknerjoch. This second graveyard was barely the size of an elongated chamber. It was called “The Graveyard of the Innocent”, since only children were buried there who had not received baptism. Such graveyards also exist in many other villages. But it was very painful for the inhabitants when they lost a little child so quickly that they could not receive the holy baptism nor even the emergency baptism. Thus, usually everything possible was attempted so that even a half-dead child could receive the blessing of the holy baptism and a name. And physicians and midwives were praised and rewarded highly if they succeeded in extending the fleeting life of such a child for just long enough so that they could still be buried in the large graveyard.'
