#3rd of October, 1502 ##"Manibus date lilia plenis"
Immediately following the death of the Prince-Bishop, church colleagues and subordinates set to work on all the necessary funerary preparations warranted for the death of a Prince-Bishop. Letters were dictated and copied many times over to be dispatched to all the abbeys and churches of the Diocese as well as to the courts and churches of a number of neighbouring territories:
>"Give lilies with full hands", as first written by marvellous Virgil and again by prudent Dante, for a noble spirit has passed this day. It is with grave news that we the monks at the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Cambrai must write on behalf of His Eminence the Prince-Bishop, to inform you: The Prince-Bishop Henri de Bergues has departed this world to be with the Holy Father, Son, and the Saints in His kingdom, and so with both bitter tears of mourning and heartful celebration at his ascension, we his humble friends and colleagues, both laymen and ecclesiastical subjects in the Bishopric of Cambrai, will conduct the appropriate rites and ceremonies to see his mortal body inhumed. Our late Bishop's hair was hardly a shade of grey when he has now died and the fact he would now depart this world so soon comes to a shock to not only all of us but surely to his own noble spirit; doubtless however that Our Lord ordained this to happen for good reasons and the unshackled spirit of Henri is grateful. However, it is for this reason that our Bishop did not yet express plans for how and where he hoped to find rest in death, as such is befell our humbled selves to determine this for him.
>After a short but well-considered deliberation, the Abbots of Cambrésis and those of us close to our Bishop have agreed to inter his corpse at the very resplendent Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Cambrai here, the very place in which Henri in his duties both secular and liturgical as Prince-Bishop was headquartered. We think this most fitting and deserving of our beloved Prince-Bishop and would assume this to be his wishes had the thought of his own death been prescie
... keep reading on reddit ➡I’ll soon be working at a Roman burial site in the Iberian Peninsula working with both inhumation and cremation contexts. I’m a bioarchaeologist and only have experience with medieval and early-modern age burials, so mostly Christian and some Islamic burials. I only have very basic knowledge of Roman burial contexts.
I’d be very grateful if anyone could point me the best sources to learn more about Roman funerary practices, if possible related to archaeological discoveries and not just theory.
Thank you
A slave died recently that had been converted to my belief beforehand and due to my meme Inhumation of flesh is required or colonists get a debuff, but because it was a slave that died, Inhumation of flesh is disabled because they don't get funerals.
