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In Havrenne, you will also come across the commemorative Wery cross. This cross indicates the place where Joseph Wery, a wealthy merchant form Rochefort, died a sudden death in 1784.
Note the skull and bones that are engraved in the lower section.
This type of cross is locally known as a ‘croix-d’occis’. This old-French word (from the Old French ‘occire’ to slay), is used to designate a commemorative cross that remembers a person that died from unnatural causes (usually an accident). There are three different types of commemorative crosses:
• sudden, violent death (assault, crimes of passion),
• accidents (mine workers squashed by a block of stone, hunting accidents, drowning, being struck by lightning)
• natural causes (heart attack).
As well as the circumstances of death, these crosses mention the victim’s age and name.
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