. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . ing-place for the Jewish kings, and no great-er dishonor could be shown to any of theirmonarchs than to exclude him from this 1 This throws light on Matt, xxiii., 27, and Actsxxiii., 3. i. e., Bleeping-places, not only from the be-lief that the dead rest from their earthly toiland sorrow, but also as pointing out thehope of a future resurrection. The churchdid not approve of separate family sepul-chres, but preferred
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . ing-place for the Jewish kings, and no great-er dishonor could be shown to any of theirmonarchs than to exclude him from this 1 This throws light on Matt, xxiii., 27, and Actsxxiii., 3. i. e., Bleeping-places, not only from the be-lief that the dead rest from their earthly toiland sorrow, but also as pointing out thehope of a future resurrection. The churchdid not approve of separate family sepul-chres, but preferred that all the brethrenshould rest together in one common burial-ground. In the fourth century there sprangup the practice of building oratories or chap-els, called 3Iart)/ria, Propheteia, Apostolwa, overthe graves of the apostles, prophets, or mar-tyrs, and also in the place where were ceme-teries. Accordingly, cemetery came to beused for the name of a church, just as theground set apart for burial is called church-yard, because usually situated in the vicinityof a church. Monuments. — The primitive monumentswere mounds of earth, or heaps of stones upon BUEIAL 149 BUEIAL.
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