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Old St. Pancras Church

By S. S. N. H.

Old St. Pancras has always been a noted burial-place for Roman Catholics that reside in or near London; and it has been assigned as a reason for that being their mausoleum and cemetery, that prayers and mass are said daily in a church dedicated to the same saint, in the south of France, for the repose of the souls of the faithful whose bodies are deposited in the church of St. Pancras near London (England), where crosses and Requiescat in Pace, or the initial of those words, R.I.P., are found on the sepulchral monuments. It is said prayer and mass are said at St. Peter at Rome, also for the sa…

Topics: Roman Catholic Burial Practices, Reformation, Religious Rites

Locations: Old St. Pancras, London, England, St. Peter at Rome, south of France