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2. Herzgruft - Wikipedia

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   The Herzgruft (German for 'Heart Crypt') is a burial chamber that protects 54 urns containing the hearts of members of the House of Habsburg. The crypt is located behind the Loreto Chapel in the Augustinian Church within the Hofburg Palace complex in Vienna, Austria. [1]

3. Heart-burial - Wikipedia

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   Heart-burial is a type of burial in which the heart is interred apart from the body. In medieval Europe heart-burial was fairly common among the higher echelons of society, as was the parallel practice of the separate burial of entrails or wider viscera : examples can be traced back to the beginning of the twelfth century. [ 1 ]

4. Urn - Wikipedia

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   Funerary urns (also called cinerary urns and burial urns) have been used by many civilizations. After death, corpses are cremated , and the ashes are collected and put in an urn. Pottery urns, dating from about 7000 BC, have been found in an early Jiahu site in China, where a total of 32 burial urns are found, [ 1 ] and another early finds are ...

5. Cremation - Wikipedia

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   A portion of the cremated remains may be retained in a specially designed locket known as cremation jewelry, or even blown into special glass keepsakes and glass orbs Cremated remains may also be incorporated, with urn and cement, into part of an artificial reef, or they can also be mixed into paint and made into a portrait of the deceased.

6. List of individual body parts - Wikipedia

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   The heart of the Brazilian emperor Dom Pedro I was preserved following his death in 1834. It is kept in a glass jar, with formaldehyde, in the Church of Our Lady of Lapa . The container is locked inside an urn. [110] The heart is considered a relic by the Portuguese government. [111]

7. Matthews Aurora Funeral Solutions - Wikipedia

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   Matthews Aurora Funeral Solutions (formerly the Aurora Casket Company) is one of the largest manufacturers of caskets and funerary urns in the United States, selling over 38% of the country's caskets as of 2005. The Aurora, Indiana–based company is a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based Matthews International.