Cemetery - Unted States

From about the 7th, European burial was under the control of the church and on consecrated church ground. Practices varied but, in continental Europe, bodies were usually buried in a mass grave until they had decomposed. The bones were then exhumed and stored in ossuaries either along the arcaded bounding walls of the cemetery or within the church under floor slabs and behind walls. The habit of burying corpses in land enclosed within the city walls had a negative impact on health. As a consequence, some cemeteries were moved away fro ...

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