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Where the Dead Waited Until Spring: Inside a Cemetery Receiving Vault Most people walk right past these strange (usually) stone structures in old cemeteries and never give it a second thought, but it once held rows of coffins. It’s called a receiving vault, and before modern burial equipment and winter digging methods, this is where the dead were kept when the ground was frozen solid. Sometimes coffins waited here for weeks, and even months, until spring thaw allowed graves to be dug. Imagine a

In Spanish colonial Manila, cemetery vaults were rented not owned. If families stopped paying, remains were removed and left exposed. This practice shocked American visitors in 1899. #Filipino #PacoPark #PhilippineHistory #SpanishColonial #FilipinoTalk Manila cemetery history, Paco Cemetery, Spanish colonial Philippines, burial customs Philippines, osario ossuary

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