Saint Christophers Episcopal Church Columbarium
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Saint Christophers Episcopal Church Columbarium

Roseville, Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA

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    Roseville, Minnesota 55113 United States
    Coordinates: 45.01149, -93.15538
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This 9x5 set of niches for two sets of cremains is within the Christ Child Chapel where the art reflects the accounts of Creation and Noah's ark. I have given arbitrary plot numbers by labeling the columns A to L from right to left. The rows are 1 to 5 from top to bottom.
Here is a description of a columbarium:
From the earliest Christian times there has been a cherished Church tradition of burying the dead in crypts, churchyards and chapels with the body of the church. This was a natural development among the early Christians of ancient Rome who fled to the catacombs during their persecution. They set aside special burial areas within the catacombs. These areas were blessed by the church and were typically associated with the Church's gathering for prayers and the offering of the Eucharist to the faithful.
This burial chamber was often referred to as a columbarium, the Latin word for dovecote - the dwelling place of a columba, the dove. The use of this name may well have developed together with the custom of blessing the burial area - thus calling to mind the Holy Spirit whose presence was especially sensed in the resting place of the departed and whose symbol is the dove.
In recent years there has been a widespread return to the ancient custom of using fire to speed the normal process of returning the body, whose soul has departed, to the dust of the earth from which it came. This practice of cremation has, in turn, made practical a return to the columbarium as a place of interment, making it possible for the ashes of the faithful to be deposited within the structure of the church itself, as was common in times past.
(Above information courtesy of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Rochester.)




This 9x5 set of niches for two sets of cremains is within the Christ Child Chapel where the art reflects the accounts of Creation and Noah's ark. I have given arbitrary plot numbers by labeling the columns A to L from right to left. The rows are 1 to 5 from top to bottom.
Here is a description of a columbarium:
From the earliest Christian times there has been a cherished Church tradition of burying the dead in crypts, churchyards and chapels with the body of the church. This was a natural development among the early Christians of ancient Rome who fled to the catacombs during their persecution. They set aside special burial areas within the catacombs. These areas were blessed by the church and were typically associated with the Church's gathering for prayers and the offering of the Eucharist to the faithful.
This burial chamber was often referred to as a columbarium, the Latin word for dovecote - the dwelling place of a columba, the dove. The use of this name may well have developed together with the custom of blessing the burial area - thus calling to mind the Holy Spirit whose presence was especially sensed in the resting place of the departed and whose symbol is the dove.
In recent years there has been a widespread return to the ancient custom of using fire to speed the normal process of returning the body, whose soul has departed, to the dust of the earth from which it came. This practice of cremation has, in turn, made practical a return to the columbarium as a place of interment, making it possible for the ashes of the faithful to be deposited within the structure of the church itself, as was common in times past.
(Above information courtesy of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Rochester.)




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