According to legend this was the work of one monk after the bones were disinterred and moved from their original burial ground to the new church. |
In fact, the body gets buried and disinterred, and reburied and almost buried, quite a few times. |
Several years after he died and was buried in China his body was disinterred and found to be miraculously intact. |
Some bodies were found in rusty coffins, some as much as 10 years old, that had evidently been buried and then later disinterred. |
He has disinterred thousands of bodies from sites where they were buried by the army. |
People buried more than 100 years ago could be disinterred and then re-interred deeper underground, leaving fresh land above for new graves. |