Klein Oak and Cypress Bridgeland face off in a best-of-three 6A Division I series that begins at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Bridgeland. On Thursday, the series shifts to Klein Oak for a 6 p.m. game ...

The Vatican tradition indicates that popes be buried in the three sets; One made of cypress wood, zinc (or lead) and oak, in that order, marking a symbolic and highly ceremonial event in ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — A court in Ivory Coast ruled on Tuesday that Tidjane Thiam, a former CEO of Credit Suisse, is not eligible to run for president because of his dual Ivorian-French ...

The pope's body will be placed in a cypress-wood coffin before the funeral and then placed in two other coffins that fit inside one another, each made of different types of wood, at his burial site.

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Other gestures included getting rid of the custom of papal funerals having three coffins—of cypress wood, lead, and elm, placed one inside the other—instead opting for a single, simple coffin ...

This protocol dictates that when a bishop of Rome dies, his body must rest in three different coffins: the first made of cypress wood, the second of lead to be sealed, and the third of oak to be ...