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A funeral procession in the Philippines, 2009. During the Pre-Hispanic period the early Filipinos believed in a concept of life after death. [1] This belief, which stemmed from indigenous ancestral veneration and was strengthened by strong family and community relations within tribes, prompted the Filipinos to create burial customs to honor the dead through prayers and rituals.
Morgan Casket, 11th–12th centuries, Southern Italy, ivory The Becket Casket, about 1180–90, Limoges enamel, France, V&A Museum no. M.66-1997. This is a list of individual caskets with articles: Shinkot casket, 2nd century BC, Buddhist container for reliquaries, Gandhara, stone; Bajaur casket, 5–6 AD, Gandhara (now Pakistan), stone reliquary
A shop window display of coffins at a Polish funeral director's office A casket showroom in Billings, Montana, depicting split lid coffins. A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, for either burial or cremation. Coffins are sometimes referred to as caskets, particularly in American English.
Casket manufacturing. In the records of Department of Trade and Industry (Philippines), the town holds the title “casket capital of Central Luzon.” It is home to 300 family-owned casket businesses that each produce about 80 caskets monthly or a total production of 24,000 a month. [19] [20] Casket capital of the Philippines, Oct. 22, 2012
The custom-casket maker posted a quick prayer on Facebook and was on his way. “Please pray for Uvalde!!” wrote the owner of SoulShine Industries, based in Edna, Texas, east of San Antonio.
But in Olongapo, a city of 220,000 three hours north of Manila, drug users are taught carpentry skills and paid 5,000 Philippine pesos ($103) a month to build wooden coffins as part of the local ...
Aquino's casket initially lay in state at the St. Benilde Gymnasium of La Salle Green Hills in Mandaluyong, before it was transferred to Manila Cathedral on August 3 on a red Isuzu 810 flatbed truck with a handwriting in front saying "MAHAL KA NAMIN CORY (WE LOVE YOU CORY)". A crowd estimated at 120,000 witnessed the transfer of her remains ...
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Shutterstock More than one year after Prince Philip’s funeral, the late Duke of Edinburgh’s casket will be moved and reunited with his wife of seven ...