At the end of Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva's funeral service, Schubert's Ave Maria drifted from the small baroque church in Gondomar, near Porto, northern Portugal.
It is a song which had been performed by Alexandra Quinta e Costa as part of the Lapa Polyphonic Choir when Rute Cardoso, tied the knot with her teenage sweetheart, Jota, just 13 days prior.
But as Costa sang it again on Saturday, this time as the coffins were carried away to the Sao Cosme cemetery nearby, the meaning of that song changed forever for Rute, whose gaze did not once leave her husband's casket.