Unknown dead buried with reverence at Catholic cemetery

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By Hillary Senour

Denver, Colo., Jun 6, 2013 / 02:02 am (CNA).- At the Archdiocese of Denver's Mount Olivet Cemetery, no person is buried without prayers being said over them – even those whose identities are a mystery.

“Sometimes we don't even know the person’s name; they could come to us as a John Doe,” Lloyd Swint, assistant director of Cemeteries and Mortuaries for the Denver archdiocese, told CNA June 4.

“We’ll offer prayers for the repose of their souls, for the forgiveness of their sins, their deliverance into the arms of Christ.”

Because Mount Olivet and the Archdiocese mortuary are on the same property, they are able to take part in two ministries; burials of unidentified deceased and funerals and burials for the poor.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/unknown-dead-buried-with-reverence-at-catholic-cemetery/

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1. Thanks for this post.

Tomorrow I'll try to catch up on the others I had to postpone from the previous week.

You and UrbScotty and a few others are not to be missed! I always learn something, and that gives peace to my soul in a very troubled world.