Word: collegia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Have you ever noticed in the North End of Boston, for example," he went on, "a large funeral of some fifteen or twenty automobiles and huge loads of flowers, accompanying the burial of some obscure laborer? The collegia, in the time of the Empire, were associations of a very similar nature to those which provide the North End funerals. The Aryan faith required that a man have a decent burial, and for those who could not provide one, the funeral associations existed. While the Christians only inhumed the bodies of the deceased, the pagans used cremation as well...
...Lalapunta Herald has an even more obvious attack of collegia tremens. In the issue of March 14 they reveal such data as this...