And they of the people and tribes and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and shall not allow their dead bodies to be put in graves.
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Bede
AD 735
tombs: He has spoken of their wish and their opposition: not that they are able to effect that the Church should not be their memorial; as it is said, "Ye neither enter in, nor suffer others to enter in," seeing that some do enter in, although they oppose. But they will evidently effect, in respect of the bodies of the living and of the slain, that neither are the living suffered to meet together for their memory by the celebration of holy offices, nor the slain to have their names recited for their memory, nor to have their bodies buried for their memory as witnesses of God. <a
