Resting place / God's acre
Levaram as flores ao campo santo no Dia de Finados.
They took the flowers to the resting place on All Souls' Day.
Campo santo means literally "holy field." The phrase comes from the Camposanto of Pisa, the monumental cemetery begun in the 13th century on ground said to have been filled with sacred earth brought by ship from Golgotha after the Third Crusade.
Sources: Priberam, Terre di Pisa.
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