Heard an interesting word...

Listening to a Christian radio station...on this Good Friday..

heard the word... ossuary

Anybody?

I've never heard of it. Veddy soddy.

a stone "box" to hold the bones of the dead?

I've heard of it, but never seen one.

Kind of like a reliquary, but not quite. (Heard that word in a video game called rebel galaxy.)

An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains.
A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary.

This is a beautiful, bizarre and slightly disturbing rabbit hole if you want to see or know more:

Bone Houses: A Definitive Guide to the World's Ossuaries

Lol

i visited one near Prague, gruesome affair..

https://sedlecossuary.com/

Blessings,

JF

i am familiar with this word.

i mean, if you look at my avatar, you might have guessed lol

the truth is that i know a little bit of latin ((osse = bone)) and for very long time i have kept a habit of doing a lot of crossword puzzles . . .

I'm a former cremationist . . . your avatar does look rather familiar (less the pose).

"skeleton supplicant"

it's Colossians 3:3, more or less


what an interesting profession that must have been! i don't think i could keep it up for a lifetime

I only had to do it for seven months before I received my promotion to the business office. The things I saw . . . it was terrifying. I hated most of the job, though working with families was a True treasure. I'll admit . . . I was afraid of cremating people (and an occasional fetus in a bucket). Often I was the only one in the columbarium . . . surrounded by tens of thousands of cremated people. I never saw a ghost but was always looking over my shoulder.

Os is bone, ostiary would be a place to keep a bone or bones.

Very good, you all!👍❤️