
Ruttokivi - Plague memorial stone in Porvoo, Finland
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N 60° 23.701 E 025° 39.253
35V E 425835 N 6696162
Quick Description: Ruttokivi - Plaguestone is memorial stone in Porvoo for those who died in plague.
Ruttokivi - Ruttoon kuolleiden muistoksi.
Location: Finland
Date Posted: 8/23/2009 1:13:16 AM
Waymark Code: WM72BH
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Long Description:
[English]Plague came to Porvoo in 1710 from south. Killed nearly
700 people. Graveyard were full so they had to bury people in
massgraves. There were also another epidemic in Porvoo region in
1572 that killed about 300 people.
[Suomi]Kun rutto saapui Porvooseen etelästä 1710 se tappoi lähes
700 porvoolaista. Hautausmaat tulivat pian täyteen joten ihmisiä
piti haudata joukkohautoihin. Porvoossa riehui myös toinen
ruttoepidemia 1572, joka tappoi reilun 300 ihmistä.
In memorial stone there read - Ruttokivessä lukee:
PS. 71 20
TILL MINNET
AV
DEM SOM PESTEN SLOGS
1710-1711
RUTTOON SORTUNEITTEN
MUISTOLLE.
In english.
Psalm 71 20
In memory of those who died by plague
1710 - 1711
On bottom part of the stone there is quite hard to read latin
text...
Loppuosassa on hieman hankalasti luettavaa tekstiä
latinaksi...
Pestis multas hominum myriades
civium autem Borgoae aurestiumque 652 extinxit
queis locus sepulturae in latere Näse colus
prope viam regiam est datus