The Two Graves
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ This is a picture of the graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband. They were not allowed to be buried together. On the Protestant part of this cemetery, Jacobus Warnerus Constantinus van Gorkum, colonel of the Dutch Cavalry and militia commissioner in Limburg is buried. His wife, Lady Josephina Carlina Petronela Hubertina van Aefferden, is buried in the Catholic part. They were married in 1842. She was 22 and he was 33 then. Lord Alfred Tennyson said, “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you ... I could walk through my garden forever.”