One Hundred Years of Solitude

wake would be in her house.
Father Nicanor was against a
religious ceremony and burial
in consecrated ground. Úrsula
stood up to him. In a way that
neither you nor I can
understand, that man was a
saint, she said. So I am going
to bury him, against your
wishes, beside Melquíades
grave. She did it with the
support of the whole town
and with a magnificent
funeral. Amaranta did not