Sentences with phrase «into ossuaries»

Our clients have the option of having their pets remains returned to them, having an actual burial, or simply having some of the ashes dropped into an ossuary.

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Each family tomb only had so much room, and so when a body had decomposed, the bones would be put into a stone box called an Ossuary, and the names of the people would often get inscribed on to the box so that descendants would know whose bones were inside the box.

It bids us plunge into the depths of Christianity's harrowing sublimity — into, that is, our ossuaries encrusted with bone, our catacombs whose chambers ancient hymns once filled.