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Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by TMKsouth: 12:20pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
South Africa's spiritual father Archbishop Desmond Tutu, hero of the anti-apartheid struggle, was laid to rest at dawn on Sunday (Jan 2) in the Cape Town cathedral where he once preached against the brutal white-minority regime. Nobel Peace Prize winner Tutu died a week ago, aged 90, after a life spent fighting injustice. His ashes were "interred at St George's Cathedral in a private family service early today", an Anglican Church statement said. Archbishop Thabo Makgoba placed his remains under an inscribed memorial stone before the high altar. He urged South Africans to "use this opportunity to turn a new page". "Let us commit ourselves... to the radical, the revolutionary change that he advocated," Makgoba said. "Let us live as simply as he lived, exemplified by his pine coffin with rope handles." Some 20 members of Tutu's family, led by his widow "Mama Leah" were present. Famed for his modesty, Tutu had left instructions for a simple, no-frills funeral with a cheap coffin, followed by an eco-friendly flameless cremation (aquamation). Family, friends, clergy and politicians had attended a requiem mass on Saturday with President Cyril Ramaphosa leading the tributes. "Our departed father was a crusader in the struggle for freedom, for justice, for equality and for peace, not just in South Africa... but around the world as well," said Ramaphosa. "While our beloved (Nelson Mandela) was the father of our democracy, Archbishop Tutu was the spiritual father of our new nation", lauding him as "our moral compass and national conscience". https://www.news24.com/amp/news24/southafrica/news/pics-this-is-where-archbishop-desmond-tutus-ashes-are-buried-in-st-georges-cathedral-20220102 3 Likes 3 Shares
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Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by hisexcellency34: 12:21pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
may his soul rest in peace 31 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by atorioke(m): 12:23pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
Desmond Tutu my Man. RIP freedom fighter. 24 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by NwaNimo1(m): 12:23pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
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Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by TMKsouth: 12:24pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
See pictures of the official State Funeral here (New Year's Day): https://www.nairaland.com/6918902/pictures-archbishop-desmond-tutu-laid
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Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by christejames(m): 12:26pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
I am gradually taking likings for cremation ooo,(see the small space the ash will be finally interred) but in Nigeria it's still being frowned at, like saying, how do you burn a corpse making it pass through fire in death while it went through the same fire in the country while alive? RIP Bishop. 158 Likes 7 Shares |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by mightyhaze: 12:28pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
Should have been dug deeper..with better reinforcement.. RIP Reverend Tutu.. 15 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by ThatFairGuy1: 12:28pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
So he was cremated From frying pan..... 11 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by fergie001: 12:29pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
Rest well....The Arch 4 Likes |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by omowolewa: 12:30pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
Rest on |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by insidelife22(m): 12:30pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
rest in peace. |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by Putindbutt: 12:31pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
I thought he asked that he be aquamated. why cremate his body against his wish or am i missing out on something. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by TMKsouth: 12:33pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
Putindbutt: Same thing - just different processes. Aquamation is eco-friendly. https://www.nairaland.com/6918575/desmond-tutu-body-south-african 15 Likes |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by TMKsouth: 12:35pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
The Arch's daughter Reverend Nontombi Naomi Tutu gave a moving tribute to her father at the funeral service. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZUlRsufDIA 1 Like
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Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by TMKsouth: 12:49pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
mightyhaze: I guess the cathedral is a safe space. |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by Putindbutt: 12:54pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
TMKsouth:One involves burning, the other is not. 2 Likes |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by Anigreat: 1:03pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
This man is one of those that sacrificed so much for south Africa. If not for his likes, the the useless blacks in south Africa who fight their fellow African black brothers in their country would have still be in total bondage of the white till date. 20 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by TMKsouth: 1:12pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
Anigreat: LOL, I thought u said it's Nigerians that freed the "useless blacks". 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by iCauseTrouble: 2:19pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by OnyeMmeri: 2:20pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
I never knew Christians practice cremation. I can't imagine holding someone's ashes in my hands. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by SocialJustice: 2:20pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
When I'm full of life and no more, I prefer being turned into diamonds. 7 Likes |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by SultanOfPuna: 2:20pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
Ik |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by Nobody: 2:21pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
This is truly eco friendly..... 1 Like |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by Nobody: 2:21pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
Is that all the ash? Bring me the rest and I can extract his DNA and create his copy in my simulation if apartheid occurs. |
Re: Desmond Tutu's Ashes Buried Inside Church Floor (Pictures) by Akwamkpuruamu: 2:22pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
Was he cremated, as to turn into ashes rather than aquamated? But what if the will of the dead isn't obeyed, what will happen? I can't burn my loved one, its unafrican. Even if my loved one chooses to be cremated at death, I won't honor that instruction and nothing go happen 9 Likes |
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