The nuns at the school(s) I went to didn’t do that, but many of them were Hispanic, too. They did encourage us girls to become nuns, though-I seriously thought about it until I was about 14.
Family members live on-and have lived on and ranched that property for way over a century, and the whole area was pretty much lawless into the 20th century-there is no getting away from haunting on those old places because bad things went down there in the far past-it was part of the old west. People are buried there that no one ever found.
Part of that is cultural, too-we were taught not to be afraid of death or the dead-they are just people that God has taken to where he wants them to be. I make an altar for my departed loved ones every year for dia de los muertos, same as everyone else does. My 1st husband was familiar with that, but MrT5 was mystified by it at first-he was from up north.
and don’t the mexicans go and have picnics in the cemetery on dia de los difuntos too?