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Pope Francis rejects tradition, opts for humble wooden casket and burial outside Vatican
Pope Francis has announced that he will forgo the traditional, elaborate burial ... casket practice—which creates an airtight seal and accommodates objects such as coins or papal documents—is ...
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Anchorage’s public cemetery is likely to run out of room for low-cost burials next summer
As the public section of the cemetery fills, those seeking burials may have to shift to the Angelus Memorial Park in South ...
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Pope Francis refuses glitzy burial — opts for wooden casket as he simplifies papal funeral rites
garish funeral practices his predecessors observed upon their deaths, Reuters reported. When he dies, Francis will now be immediately placed in a single wooden casket lined with zinc, rather than ...
Pope Francis rejects tradition, opts for humble wooden casket and burial outside Vatican
Pope Francis announced this week that he intends on having a much more simple funeral than those of his predecessors at the ...