These include the placement of an effigy atop abierand sarcophagus, framed by weighty pillars and a triumphal arch.
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The chief mourner walks ahead of thebier, taking fire in a porcelain pot.
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It contains benefaction boards, abier, font, bell and memorials on the walls.
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Hundreds attended, many of them weeping, and thebierwas guarded by policemen and firemen.
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An egg would be broken and a nail driven into the floor beneath thebierof the house of a recently deceased person.
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He would escape, at one point taking the place of a dead body on abier.
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He blesses and consecrates the cradle, the bridal chamber, the bed of death, and thebier.
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There is a funeralbierdating from 1597.
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In the nave is a 17th centurybier.
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Canopic jars containing the deceaseds viscera are underneath thebier.
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To carry "garlands" before thebierof a maiden, and to hang them over her grave, is still the practice in rural parishes.
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He observed a moment of solemn silence, then circled thebier, followed by other officials.
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So they took herbierout at night.
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Also in the churchyard is a former 19th-centurybier-house.
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Hisbierwas attended by thousands of citizens and numerous dignitaries.
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