Inigo Hicks: Now that we've found Richard III's bones

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Now that we've found Richard III's bones

Where to next?

We are faced with the question of where and how to bury them. Richard himself, a pious Catholic notwithstanding Shakespeare and Holinshed's depictions, wished to be buried in Yorkminster, which at the time of Richard's death was a Catholic cathedral, Protestantism having not yet been invented. Wherever Richard is buried, it ought to be done according to a Catholic rite. The estimable Dr. Oddie has more here.

Sign the petition to have Richard buried in a Catholic site here.

Update: unless you're one of Her Majesty's subjects, or reside in the UK, you will not be permitted to sign the petition.

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