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Here My Great-Grandmother Was Baptized: the Hope of Depopulated Spain

Summary by La Vanguardia
A distant August 30, 1918, Agustina Gómez Martínez was christened in the Romanesque baptismal font of the church of Santa Eugenia, in Villegas (Burgos). Last August 30, 107 years later, she was baptized in the same place Alba, her great-granddaughter. More generations of the family have received this sacrament here; for example, the great-grandmother of Alba, i.e. the mother of Agustina, in 1881. So far do the records.
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A distant August 30, 1918, Agustina Gómez Martínez was christened in the Romanesque baptismal font of the church of Santa Eugenia, in Villegas (Burgos). Last August 30, 107 years later, she was baptized in the same place Alba, her great-granddaughter. More generations of the family have received this sacrament here; for example, the great-grandmother of Alba, i.e. the mother of Agustina, in 1881. So far do the records.

·Granada, Spain
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La Vanguardia broke the news in Granada, Spain on Sunday, September 14, 2025.
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