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2 unusual facts about Easter Sepulchre


All Saints' Church, Hawton

Most famous is the Easter Sepulchre, which would have been used to reserve the consecrated bread and wine between Maundy Thursday and Easter Day, during which period there would have been no celebration of Holy Communion, and the consecrated elements would have been reserved in the Sepulchre.

St Mary the Virgin, Gillingham, Dorset

On the north wall of the chancel, only two feet above the floor, can be seen the archway of an Easter Sepulchre.



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