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An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce. A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary ("os" is "bone" in Latin [1]).
The Douaumont Ossuary [1] is a memorial containing the remains of soldiers who died on the battlefield during the Battle of Verdun in World War I.It is located in Douaumont, France, within the Verdun battlefield and has been designated a "nécropole nationale", or "national cemetery".
The San Francisco Columbarium. A columbarium (/ ˌ k ɒ l əm ˈ b ɛər i. əm /; [1] pl. columbaria), also called a cinerarium, is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns holding cremated remains of the dead.
French military plot of the dead of November 11, 1918 of Vrigne-Meuse; French Monument-ossuary: Haute-Chevauchée; French municipal cemetery and chapel: Mondement-Montgivroux; French national cemetery: the prisoners of war: Sarrebourg; French national necropolis and chapel: le Souvenir Français of Rancourt
A vault is a structure built within the grave to receive the body. It may be used to prevent crushing of the remains, allow for multiple burials such as a family vault, retrieval of remains for transfer to an ossuary, or because it forms a monument. Grave backfill. The soil returned to the grave cut following burial.
The crypt, or ossuary, now contains the remains of 4,000 friars buried between 1500 and 1870, during which time the Roman Catholic Church permitted burial in and under churches. As of 1851, the crypt was only opened to the public in exchange for an admittance fee for the week following All Souls Day . [ 9 ]
In celebration of Halloween 2010, Wild Ones has released a new map: Graveyard. Getting into the spirit of the holiday, this map is an old foggy cemetery full of mossy statues depicting long lost ...
Notre Dame de Lorette (French pronunciation: [nɔtʁ(ə) dam də lɔʁɛt]), also known as Ablain St.-Nazaire French Military Cemetery, is the world's largest French military cemetery. [1] It is the name of a ridge, basilica , and French national cemetery northwest of Arras at the village of Ablain-Saint-Nazaire .