What covered cheney's casket during the funeral in the Cathedral? Outside it was replaced with the Stars and stripes

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[Dem4life1970]

1. Here is the funeral in photos from AP

https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/dick-cheney-funeral-51158438e215a44191fac336abf6da4b

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2. Thanks. Still no explanation of the cover. Perhaps associated with the Cathedral?

[Silent Type]

3. Thanks. Enjoyed looking at those.

[Lifeafter70]

4. It's called a pall

It symbolizes your babtizim garment and hope of resurrection with Christ.

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5. Thank you. Interesting

https://www.reformedworship.org/resource/symbol-faith-using-pall-christian-funerals

[Lifeafter70]

6. No problem

I thought it was only a Catholic practice (my mother had one covering her casket).
But it seems many Christian religions also use them for funeral caskets.

[IbogaProject]

7. Episcopal is very similar in Vestments and other religious objects

So it could be easily one made for both Catholic and Episcopal use.

[Celerity]

8. pics

[Sympthsical]

10. Generally only used for the church part

The casket is draped before it comes down the aisle towards the altar (usually in the foyer just inside the doors from outside). And it is removed in the same place after the service.

Some places will "encourage" you to buy them, but oftentimes a church has them on hand and reuses them the same as any other garment or cloth used in services.

I have a friend from a large Irish-American Catholic family who has a family pall. Baptism gowns being passed down is common enough, but a family funeral pall was a new one on me. His aunt keeps it, and when someone from the clan dies, they bring it out for the mass.

With my father, we just used the one provided by the parish, and then he had an American flag because he was a veteran and buried in a national cemetery. Interestingly, my mother was cremated, so she was in a marble urn during the funeral mass (held a month after her death for logistical reasons). They still put the pall over the urn during the mass.

[Orrex]

9. And the act of draping it over Cheney's grave-box is called "apalling"

[yorkster]

11. There you go again. Casting a pall over everything...

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[obamanut2012]

12. Funeral pall