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The urn and shroud drapery comes to us from the ancient Roman practice of cremation. For the Romans the urn was of greater significance because the ashes of the deceased were placed therein and kept by the family or placed in a private or communal vault. The early Christian community of ancient Rome borrowed the concept of the urn but came to attach very different symbolism to it. For them the urn represented the disgarded body of the deceased and the shroud was added by them to symbolise the so-named "veil of death" beyond which the soul of the deceased has passed on it's way to Heaven.

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