This thread has nothing referred to Argentina, but I would like to show how an ancient funeral ceremony was done in the Austrian Empire. The video is spoken in German, and the translation is this:
This is the funeral of Rudolph of Habsburg, the heir of the Imperial and Royal throne of the Austrian Empire, which committed suicide in 1889.
The officer knocks three times the door of the Kapuziner kirche in Vienna, where all the Habsburg monarchs are buried.
A monk, inside, ask: Who is there?
The officer respond: Archduke Rudolph von Habsburg, heir apparent of the Austria-Hungary Empire, prince of Bohemia, Tyrol, Moravia, Lodomeria, Galitzia; Count of Iliria, Slovenia, Croatian and Jerusalem, and so forth (many other titles)
The monk, inside, says: We do not know him.
The officer, rather concerned, repets the knocking of the door.
The monk, inside, asks: who is there?
The officer says, more humbly: Rudolph of Habsburg, heir apparent to the throne of Austria Hungary
The monk says again: We do not know him.
The officer knocks the door by the third time.
The monk, inside, asks: who is there?
The official finally respond, giving up:
Rudolph, a simple sinner
The gates of the Kapuziner kirche are now open, and the burial is allowed to be done.
A good proof that in front of God, all men are equal and wordly honors are worthless.
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