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Kris
Landeck
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Hi, guys —
I recently found the grave site of my uncle.
On the grave site, which is located in a Catholic
cemetery were the initials Q.M.P.
I have no idea what it means. My mother thought
it maybe Latin. He died in 1925.
- Do you have any idea what this means?
Kris
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What does Q.M.P. mean on my Uncle's grave site, and if it's a Latin phrase, what does it mean? }
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Richard
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John
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Kris —
Questa = This
Memoria = memory
Pose = can or may
So it's more like May this
memory
Which sounds like it's abbreviated
idiom. They do that in Italian some
times. They'll say a couple words
from a commonly used sentence and
every one gets it.
So the idiom probably means something
similar to what Richard said.
John
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Eric
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Hi, Kris —
The Byzantines have an expression, May
[his/her] memory be eternal,
customarily sung at memorial services
and used to greet the bereaved.
Perhaps that's what it means.
Eric
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