The firm quickly hired staff and set them up in cheap premises: the crypt beneath Holy Trinity church.
From there, if all goes to plan, they will be moved to a larger casket and Haile Selassie will be buried beside his wife in the crypt of Holy Trinity church.
Stone isn't known as a humorist, but a dark comedy permeates this novel, culminating, most strangely, in Eddie Stack's battle to place his daughter's ashes with her mother's inside the crypt of the Holy Redeemer Church.
The city's Romanesque cathedral, founded in 1030 by the Holy Roman emperor Conrad II, contains a unique crypt and the tombs of eight German emperors and kings and three empresses.
"Downstairs was an old-fashioned crypt, and there was a holy water dispensing machine," said Jenkins.
The crypt of "Houses of the Holy" was built underneath St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church, with plastic used to imitate sculpted stone.
In this holy city, in lightless basements, in empty crypts, in the shadow of the golden dome of the shrine of Imam Ali, thousands of men have tried desperately and often successfully to kill one another.
In the crypt, a final prayer is said, holy water is sprinkled and the choir will sing the traditional hymn to Mary, "Salve Regina".
The site includes the base of a baptismal font and a crypt that was presumably for a holy person, the archaeologists say.
