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Interior, Groote Kerk (Hofmeyer 2002: 88). Others of high rank were entombed inside the body of the church, but as Count Louis Marie Joseph O'Hier Degrandpré, (1761-1846), French naval officer and slave trader who, in his account of the Cape published in 1801 Voyage à la côte occidentale d'Afrique having sojourned at the Cape with a French Governor embargoed at Robben Island for having smallpox-infected slaves on board his ship, noted the affected grandiosities of their ennobled compatriots back in the mother country by installing invented heraldic devices as memorial plaques in the church:

Interior, Groote Kerk (Hofmeyer 2002: 88). Others of high rank were entombed inside the body of the church, but as Count Louis Marie Joseph O'Hier Degrandpré, (1761-1846), French naval officer and slave trader who, in his account of the Cape published in 1801 Voyage à la côte occidentale d'Afrique having sojourned at the Cape with a French Governor embargoed at Robben Island for having smallpox-infected slaves on board his ship, noted the affected grandiosities of their ennobled compatriots back in the mother country by installing invented heraldic devices as memorial plaques in the church:

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Figure 1 Family tombs, Paarl (Clarke 2009).
Figure 2 Interior, Groote Kerk (Hofmeyer 2002: 88). Others of high rank...
Figure 3 Burial procession of Baron van Rheede van Oudtshoorn...
Figure 4 Moerdijk [1936?]. Untitled drawing. [Photograph of a drawing...
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Death, cremation and columbaria in the culture of Dutch Christian Calvinist South Africa
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  • Jan 2010
From the earliest days of South African colonisation -through the offices of the VOC -there was the hegemony of Calvinist belief as it manifests in Dutch Reformed Protestantism in which death was preordained, inevitable and not treated lightly. At that time the Christian practice was to bury the dead, cremations being seen as doing the Devil's own...
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