cemeteries aren’t creepy they’re actually devoted to memory and rest and love and humanity
They used to be a common place to spend the afternoon and have a picnic and stuff! We should bring this back imo.
As a kid my grandpa used to take me to the donut shop then the florist and we’d eat donuts in the cemetery while placing flowers on all the really old unkempt graves.
Our parish’s cemetery custodian just retired after decades of maintaining our loved ones’ resting grounds. I’ve been recruited by the new custodian to help restore and replace the roses at the Marian reflection garden.
I’ll be going out there this weekend to see how the roses have been growing, to do emergency pruning if necessary, and what treatments are needed. Keeping my community’s place of mourning and memory beautiful is an honor.
““The faces of the giants of Mont’e Prama have become so well-known and celebrated,” writes Mulas, ”that, for many, they have come to replace the nuraghi buildings themselves as the symbol of the island’s ancient past.””
Talking about how humans have always been humans, here is one of the archeological finds that makes me cry. Like, tears rolling down the face as I’m typing this.
They posed the little boy like he was sleeping. They covered him in a shroud and placed a pillow under his head before they buried him. 78000 years ago they put time and effort and love into tucking their baby in for the last time. We still bury our loved ones like they are sleeping. We place pillows under their heads.
Wool Mark of John Fortey (d. 1459 From his brass in Northleach Parish Church
my notes; Monumental brasses are a kind of memorial which grew in popularity during the 13th century, allowing detailed representations of the dead to be made for much less money than full stone or wooden effigies, which could be laid into the floors and therefore take up much less space. They were a favoured style of funerary art until the 16th century across Europe, the vast majority of these brasses survive in England (totalling around 4000). A great many of these are found in the eastern counties, although there is a large concentration of them around Cirencester, Northleach, and Lechlade.
Replica brass of Reginald Spycer (d. 1442) This depicts Spycer and his four wives, Margaret, Juliana, Margaret and his widow Joan, a vivid testimony to the mortality rate amongst women. From Trinity Chapel, Cirencester Parish Church
my notes; Monumental brasses are a kind of memorial which grew in popularity during the 13th century, allowing detailed representations of the dead to be made for much less money than full stone or wooden effigies, which could be laid into the floors and therefore take up much less space. They were a favoured style of funerary art until the 16th century across Europe, the vast majority of these brasses survive in England (totalling around 4000). A great many of these are found in the eastern counties, although there is a large concentration of them around Cirencester, Northleach, and Lechlade.
Tombstone of Walter of Cheltenham Walter became a secular priest or clerk in 1300, and was a rector of Ampney St Mary, Withington, Coates, and Sapperton. The tombstone was excavated at Cirencester Abbey.
