sepulture

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The central picture represents a dead Christ, surrounded by the men and women who ministered to him, preparing him for sepulture.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

Moreover, from the date of the peace of Paris until the end of his life he earnestly and vainly endeavored to obtain from Rome permission for the sepulture of his father’s body.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

Here are four rooms filled with the works of Goya—whose bones, by the way, arrived in Madrid from France for final 290 sepulture a few days before the celebration.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee

One of the chapels in the transept to the left of the high altar gives sepulture to the aged martyr.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart

As he was believed to be dead, upon the petition of the great men of England, his kinsmen, it was permitted that the monks of that place should give his body the rites of sepulture.

From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Brakelond, Jocelin de