BURIAL OF A MONK
Father Malachy Dunne, a monk who died suddenly at the Monastery of St. Bernard at Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, was buried recently in the shadow of the abbey cloisters which he had never left for 33 years. The body was clothed in a long white habit and boots. Seventy monks attended the funeral. The ceremony was carried out with all the medieval rites of the Cistercian Order. There was no mourning, no flowers, no coffin. Monks lowered the body into the grave. Monks filled the grave with earth.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 45, 22 February 1936, Page 11
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91BURIAL OF A MONK Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 45, 22 February 1936, Page 11
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