During the siege of Leningrad (1941-43) a monk of Abtei Gerleve (Munster)
who called up and in the Wehrmacht was killed, and was buried by an army
chaplain, who recorded that he was buried with his breviary on his breast.
This enabled his sister (I think it was - I heard the story there in 1996)
to have the right body exhumed and brought back to be buried in his own
monastic graveyard fifty years later.
I doiubt if the officiating chaplain had that purpose in mind, so it
illustrates the possibility of a deeply laid tradition.
Anselm Cramer Osb
Ampleforth Abbey, York
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From: Jotischky, Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 23 April 1999 12:01
Subject: RE: burying books with patrons
>> Jeanne de Toulouse, virgin (fourteenth century)
>>- when her body was translated in 1805, a manuscript prayer book
>>was found beside her -- does anyone know anything about the practice
>>of burying books with their owners?
>
>The tomb effigy of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II at Fontevrault
represents
>Eleanor holding open a book - might this be an indication that she had one
>buried with her?
>
>Andrew Jotischky
>Dept of History
>Lancaster University
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