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Instead of the usual representations of saints and symbols of faith, the graves in the Merry Graveyard show scenes from the lives of the deceased. They were executed by Ioan Stan Pătraş, a local carpenter. He sculpted the first grave for a neighbour who drowned in the Tisza in 1935, but it is still an early work. After several years Pătraş added an image and a poem; since then each local family commissioned him to create epitaphs for their deceased. The commissions were so numerous that in time Pătraş had to be aided by his pupil Dumitru Pop, called Tincu, who took over the master’s work after his death in 1977.