Amid the many gracious temples of Chiang Mai, still one of the most charming cities of booming Thailand, there is a bit of consecrated ground presided over not by the Buddha but by an equally plump representation of a more earthly suzerainty, Queen Victoria.
"The cross is Christian, that it was installed in a religious service on consecrated ground, which makes it a working shrine on public land in the World Trade Center, and we think the atheists who also died on 9/11, and the Muslims and the Jews, should all have their equal presence," Silverman said, according to Raw Story.
For various reasons -- among them, Fitzgerald's adulterous relationship with Graham and his notorious lifestyle during the Roaring '20s -- he was denied burial on St . Marys consecrated ground and placed instead in a Protestant cemetery a mile and a half away.
But the toll of the crisis overwhelming the island this year has seen the bodies of men, women and children come in at a previously unprecedented rate, filling the consecrated ground.
Objections were raised by Littlemore Parish Council who said the proposal encroached on consecrated ground and cited a lack of open community space.
It further holds that the ground within which its members are buried is consecrated ground and that it has an obligation to protect that ground in order to honor the dead" and "further to use the St. Johannes Cemetery as a place of reflection and prayer with respect to matters of life, death and faith".
The initial plan was to reinter Richard's body in Leicester Cathedral, following the normal archaeological practice of reburial in the nearest consecrated ground to the original grave; this had been a condition of the licence granted by the Ministry of Justice to exhume any human remains found during the excavation.
During a meeting of the Council, Philip accused the Amfissian Locrians of intruding on consecrated ground.
"This is consecrated ground," said one distinguished gray-haired man.
At the turn of the century, the Church barred suicides from consecrated ground.
