Sampo Syreeni wrote: > On 2012-10-12, Peter Lennox wrote: >> as an aside (and without looking it up) ossuary clearly means some >> official receptacle for bones, I would guess? > > Uhhuh. It's a sort of a secondary burial site where you either dump, or > sometimes also carefully place, people's bones, once they've been > cleaned by one mechanism or another. It's the stuff horror movie > directors most like to shoot, and which is to be found beneath some of > the chapels of Rome, plus certain monesteries.
In Canada, it is a large receptacle for cremated remains (ashes). Lots of cemeteries have them. In my local cemetery, it is mostly underground; you need a key to unlock the top to add your departed. Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/ _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
