Famously, he spent a spell as a Highgate Cemetery gravedigger, and was later also deported from Spain for vagrancy while busking in Barcelona. |
Once in the church, our gravedigger afflicted with Down's Syndrom had looked in vain for Jesus really present in the Eucharist. |
The gravedigger, alarmed at what Samuel asked him, at first refused his request. |
No final words are spoken, no ceremony is performed, and the only witness is the gravedigger. |
On the other hand, the gravedigger knows that the family of the deceased is still alive. |
This gravedigger also understands that once a person is dead, we can't do any good or harm to that person by fiddling with their corpse. |