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EspañolPOTTER'S FIELD
:''For the album by 12 Stones see Potter's Field (album)
A 'potter's field' is a place for the burial of unknown or indigent people.
Main articles: Akeldama
The term comes from the story in the New Testament of the Bible, in which Jewish priests take 30 pieces of silver returned by a repentant Judas. "The chief priests picked up the coins and said, 'It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.' So they decided to use the money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for foreigners. That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day."
The traditional site of this is in the valley of Hinnom, which was a source of potter's clay. This may be the origin of the name. [1]
★ Washington Square Park and Bryant Park in New York City were originally potter's fields. The city's current facility of this type is on Hart Island.
★ Potter's Field was also the name of a small cove of the East River just below the Williamsburg Bridge on the Brooklyn side, where bodies that have been in the river from November through the winter season surface in April as the rising temperature causes them to decompose and rise to the surface. The fluid dynamics of the East River causes a collection of these bodies every year off the docks of Potter's Field.
★ Hudson County Burial Grounds
★ Hart Island (New York)
★ Potter's Field (Omaha) in Omaha, Nebraska
★ Potters Field, London, SE1, near the Greater London Assembly and St Olave's Grammar School
★ ''From Potter's Field'' is a novel by Patricia Cornwell.
★ Potter's Field is an album by the rock band 12 Stones.
★ On the title track to Johnny Cash's album '', the lyrics include a reference to "the potter's ground" as a metaphor for dying without salvation.
★ "Potter's Field" is also the name of a song by heavy metal band Anthrax from the 1993 album Sound of White Noise.
★ Hart Island (New York), the Potter's Field in New York City is featured in the film Don't Say a Word.
★ Tom Waits makes references to Potter's Field in several of his songs.
★ ''The Potter's Field'' is the name of one of the ''Brother Cadfael'' detective books by Ellis Peters.
★ Potter's Field is a development by the greedy banker Potter in the Frank Capra film ''It's a Wonderful Life''.
★ In the long-running MUD GemStone IV an area called the "Potter's Field" is the primary spawn area for zombies. The area's descriptions are, indeed, of a long-disused graveyard for the indigent and unknown.
★ In the HBO drama Oz (TV Series), "Potter's Field" is the name for the cemetery where deceased prisoners with no next-of-kin or whose remains are unclaimed are buried
★ "No Eagle Lies in Potter's Field" is the name of a song by the rock band On A Pale Horse.
★ ''Potter's Field'' is the title of an upcoming comic book written by Mark Waid scheduled to be released in Fall 2007.
★ Boy actor, Bobby Driscoll (Peter Pan, 1953), was unidentified at the time of his burial, but it is now confirmed that he is buried in Potter's Field.
★ New York City's Hart Island Potter's Field
★ Haceldama - From the Catholic Encyclopedia
A 'potter's field' is a place for the burial of unknown or indigent people.
| Contents |
| Origin |
| Examples |
| Popular culture |
| External links |
Origin
Main articles: Akeldama
The term comes from the story in the New Testament of the Bible, in which Jewish priests take 30 pieces of silver returned by a repentant Judas. "The chief priests picked up the coins and said, 'It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.' So they decided to use the money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for foreigners. That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day."
The traditional site of this is in the valley of Hinnom, which was a source of potter's clay. This may be the origin of the name. [1]
Examples
★ Washington Square Park and Bryant Park in New York City were originally potter's fields. The city's current facility of this type is on Hart Island.
★ Potter's Field was also the name of a small cove of the East River just below the Williamsburg Bridge on the Brooklyn side, where bodies that have been in the river from November through the winter season surface in April as the rising temperature causes them to decompose and rise to the surface. The fluid dynamics of the East River causes a collection of these bodies every year off the docks of Potter's Field.
★ Hudson County Burial Grounds
★ Hart Island (New York)
★ Potter's Field (Omaha) in Omaha, Nebraska
★ Potters Field, London, SE1, near the Greater London Assembly and St Olave's Grammar School
Popular culture
★ ''From Potter's Field'' is a novel by Patricia Cornwell.
★ Potter's Field is an album by the rock band 12 Stones.
★ On the title track to Johnny Cash's album '', the lyrics include a reference to "the potter's ground" as a metaphor for dying without salvation.
★ "Potter's Field" is also the name of a song by heavy metal band Anthrax from the 1993 album Sound of White Noise.
★ Hart Island (New York), the Potter's Field in New York City is featured in the film Don't Say a Word.
★ Tom Waits makes references to Potter's Field in several of his songs.
★ ''The Potter's Field'' is the name of one of the ''Brother Cadfael'' detective books by Ellis Peters.
★ Potter's Field is a development by the greedy banker Potter in the Frank Capra film ''It's a Wonderful Life''.
★ In the long-running MUD GemStone IV an area called the "Potter's Field" is the primary spawn area for zombies. The area's descriptions are, indeed, of a long-disused graveyard for the indigent and unknown.
★ In the HBO drama Oz (TV Series), "Potter's Field" is the name for the cemetery where deceased prisoners with no next-of-kin or whose remains are unclaimed are buried
★ "No Eagle Lies in Potter's Field" is the name of a song by the rock band On A Pale Horse.
★ ''Potter's Field'' is the title of an upcoming comic book written by Mark Waid scheduled to be released in Fall 2007.
★ Boy actor, Bobby Driscoll (Peter Pan, 1953), was unidentified at the time of his burial, but it is now confirmed that he is buried in Potter's Field.
External links
★ New York City's Hart Island Potter's Field
★ Haceldama - From the Catholic Encyclopedia
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