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Mexican Cinemactor Jorge Negrete bowed his head over the casket to pronounce the last eulogy. "Lupe, our friend," he said, "you are being lowered into the ground of your homeland." Nobody heard...
Thus last week did riotous, rowdy Lupe Velez, dead by her own hand (TIME, Dec.25), find a resting place in Mexico City's Graveyard of Sorrows beside another recent suicide, Singer Lucha Reyes...
...Because Lupe was denied Catholic burial services in Los Angeles her body was brought back to her native Mexico. "Deliberate" (i.e. sane) suicides are among the six classes of Catholic sinners denied Catholic burial rites...
...have denied her burial in consecrated ground. But Catholic canon law in this respect is flexible, depending largely on the judgment of the local bishop. Since the Mexican Government frequently overrides Church decisions, a Mexican bishop might well be persuaded to grant what a California bishop would withhold. Hence Lupe Velez's body lies in holy ground. But if she took her life deliberately, her soul, according to Catholic doctrine, will find no rest through all eternity...
...night last week she had a long chat with two close friends. She was distressed, and she said so. The friends left at 3:30 a.m. Lupe whistled for her dogs, went to her bedroom. She undressed, stepped into blue silk pajamas, sat down on her huge bed to scribble a note. In her childish scrawl she wrote: "Harald: May God forgive you and forgive me too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring in him with shame or killing...