Grave guard

Wren's guard uniform

This custom has been known in Poland since at least the mid-seventeenth century, and is described in sources from the 18th and 19th centuries. The military or paravoan formations in the churches at the tombs of the Lord from Easter Friday afternoon to resurrection on Easter Sunday . This custom, probably known in Poland since the mid-seventeenth century, is described in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For example, in Warsaw during Augustus III, the burial guards consisted of the queen's ladders and horse artillery units, and in other towns and cities - military units of various types of weapons, in uniformed uniforms; In the late nineteenth century, in some regions of Wielkopolska in uniforms with oriental elements (turbans, curves of Turkish sabers) - perhaps the reminiscences of Vienna's pilgrimage or pilgrimage to the Holy Land, held by nobility and Polish magnates from the end of the seventeenth century (in Jerusalem, temple police, Turkmen, in national costumes). Rural tombs also dressed up as soldiers or performed in their own military uniforms if the soldiers guarded the military. The custom of burial guards has been preserved in the Polish tradition and is still alive. Every year, the guards of the Lord are usually guarded by firemen, in gala uniforms. (...) Literature

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