ossuary
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Those concepts interlace in his ossuary, enlivened when he plays his tenderly kept records, remnants of human joy all but lost to a Rage pestilence.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
But Southern California has always been an ossuary of failed publications done in by apathetic readership, clueless owners or a combination of both.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
He was buried in a specially designed crypt in the cathedral which he commissioned that will be the resting place of all future archbishops after the remains of their predecessors are transferred to an ossuary.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022
One bone of contention for him — just one vertebra in an ossuary of contention, really — is that I have not made a pilgrimage to meet his new child.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
The triumphal arch and ossuary are very inferior to St. Thégonnec, but the calvary is a magnificent monument, unequalled in Brittany, richly sculptured and ornamented.
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 by Charles W. Wood
Lasting art can be mysterious and often misunderstood; this can also be said of ossuaries.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
His “Ruins of Rome” etchings depict landmarks like the Pantheon and the Castel Sant’Angelo, but its most famous images show rubble-strewn gardens and crumbling bridges, and tricorn-hatted gentlemen wandering through collapsed temples and overgrown ossuaries.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2021
Two days later, the Vatican said ossuaries had been found under the pavement of an area inside the Pontifical Teutonic College, covered by a manhole, and would be opened this weekend.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2019
Gisotti told local Vatican media on Saturday that the two ossuaries are in “an area adjacent to the princesses' tombs” and that the works are carried out as “according to international protocols,” the BBC reported.
From Fox News ● Jul. 20, 2019
What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes and coun- sellors, might admit a wide solution.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne
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