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In fact, one of the examples I thought of concerns the motif
of a coffin that is too heavy to move . . . Until the episcopal
ring is put on the finger of the corpse.
Meg
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From: Terrill Heaps <[log in to unmask]>
> Clergy are not customarily buried with precious items, such as ring,
pectoral cross, crozier.
i don't think that this applies to the secular clergy at all.
there are just too many examples of fancy vestiments and jewelry
surviving
because they were found in tombs.
rings are an interesting matter --especially seal rings.
c
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