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Mary by the Bay
Posted in Statues, tagged donegal, donegal abbey, ireland, rosary, sculpture, statue on November 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The Right Honorable Gerald FitzGibbon
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, In the church..., Statues, tagged cenotaph, dublin, ireland, occupation, st. patrick's cathedral on November 4, 2016| Leave a Comment »
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The Right Honorable Gerald FitzGibbon was a lawyer and judge, who shared both his name and profession with his father and his son. A graduate of the University of Dublin, he served in several prominent legal positions, including Law Adviser to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Solicitor General of Ireland, Lord Justice of the Irish Court of Appeal.
Mourning under the willow
Posted in Symbolism, tagged mechanicsburg, mourners, pennsylvania, silver spring meeting house, silver spring presbyterian church, symbolism, urn, weeping willow on October 27, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I’m not lucky enough to see many tombstones with this particular combination of symbols, but those I have seen have all been gorgeous. A woman mourns at a tomb topped with an urn under the shade of a weeping willow tree, a representation of the grief felt by the bereft loved ones of the deceased.
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Sunrise
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Symbolism, tagged mechanicsburg, pennsylvania, silver spring meeting house, silver spring presbyterian church, sun, sunshine, symbolism, symbols on October 21, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I’m fairly certain that the symbol on top of this stone is a sunrise, and if so, it’s hard to imagine a more fitting representation of the family’s faith.
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Our society perceives sun and sunshine as almost overwhelmingly positive. It is a powerful symbol of belief in an afterlife of hope and comfort.
Time is fleeting…
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Symbolism, tagged harrisburg, harrisburg cemetery, hourglass, pennsylvania, sculpture, symbolism, symbols, winged hourglass, wings on October 8, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The winged hourglass is a symbol of mortality, but it is a much rarer find than a weeping willow or an urn. Imagine my delight when I found multiple examples in the Olmstead family plot in Harrisburg Cemetery.
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A winged hourglass adorns each step down to the family plot.
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Weeping willows
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Symbolism, Uncategorized, tagged harrisburg, harrisburg cemetery, pennsylvania, sculpture, weeping willow, willow on October 4, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Harrisburg Cemetery has a lot of lovely old funerary art, and willow trees are a personal favorite of mine.
I’m guessing based on proximity to another monument that the surname on this one is Haehlen as well. It’s a slightly different style of willow than I’ve posted in the past.
Zinkers at home
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Uncategorized, tagged mechanicsburg, pennsylvania, sculpture, silver spring meeting house, silver spring presbyterian church, zinker on October 3, 2016| Leave a Comment »
On a trip to south central Pennsylvania to visit my family, I noticed that there were zinkers in the Silver Spring Presbyterian churchyard. As fascinated as I am with this type of monument, I had never noticed this well-preserved pair of monuments before.
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An eternal guard
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Statues, tagged cleveland, grave art, lake view cemetery, lion, ohio, sculpture, statue, statues on September 16, 2013| Leave a Comment »
A modern pilgrim?
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Symbolism, tagged cleveland, cross, lake view cemetery, occupation, ohio, pilgrimage, roman cross, scallop shell, sculpture, st. james, way of st. james on September 2, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The shell on this tombstone in Lake View Cemetery intrigues me. A shell like this, specifically a scallop shell, is the pilgrimage symbol for Santiago de Compostela in Spain, where there is a shrine to the apostle St. James the Greater. The shrine holds bones that are reputed to be those of the saint, also the patron saint of Spain, and has been a pilgrimage site for Christians since the 9th century. Medieval pilgrims would wear a shell as a symbol of their journey, and such scallop shells are still available today. Did Irvin make this journey and treasure it in such a way that a representation of it was to be on his grave marker?
Celtic Crosses at Donegal Abbey
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Crosses, tagged celtic crosses, cross, Crosses, donegal, donegal abbey, grave art, ireland, sculpture on June 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »
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