Priests funerary garment, North of Spain, 19th c. Starched, pressed and baked linen to the shirt with intricate lacework to the skirt. Noteworthy are the very fine and delicate Flor de Lis motifs (French influence). This garment must have belonged to a huge priest measuring about 1.95m In the small Basque villages there were sometimes up to three or four priests. When someone well-known died in the village, all the priests put their best clothes on and sometimes the main priest from another village or town came with his best regalia. Funerals were very important events of the Basque rural social life, equal perhaps to a wedding. Usually there was a big banquet afterwards. This funerary dress certainly belongs to the "main" priest and is very elaborately worked.