I agree with the sentiments of these posts. 

It made me think of the quote.

Matthew 19:30

And many that are first, shall be last: and the last shall be first.

In regards to photos from wakes, marriage taught me that different cultures certainly have different customs and accepted behaviours. Whereas I grew up in a primarily Irish and Scottish environment where none dare photograph corpses, my Polish wife comes from a background where mourners are like paparazzi with all the photos that they take.

The camera is barely 200 years old and its ubiquitous availability has been only 100 years. Everyone with a camera at all times is not even 20 years. Cutsoms and manners are still developing.

Right ... I'm sure you've seen the Victorian era pictures that we find macabre today where they actually posed the corpses of the deceased in various natural settings.  Today we find that macabre.

But one comment Matthew related made it sound to me as the individual was just upset at the "shabby" venue His Excellency was in.

So, this man, a "half-hearted" pseudo-Trad (no problems with V2 and the NOM) was buried with "full honors" alongside Archbishops Lefebvre, having merely spent a couple years in retirement there, likely on an infiltration mission, whereas a warrior for Tradition, +Lefebvre's right-hand bishop and the one chosen bishop, who battled for decades against Modernism ... he gets cast aside, with the funeral equivalent of the "hotel room" Masses we had for so long in the US, ending up in a pauper's grave.

It’s very fitting in a way to come full circle for the sake of Truth. 

BTW, there’s nothing wrong with photos of loved ones in their coffins. In some cultures, it’s a tradition. Many Saints are portrayed with actual skulls on their desks and in their quarters.  On my mother’s side of the family, we have infancy through death pictures of several relatives, including my dear parents. If two people find it down disrespectful, too bad. That’s their problem. They are free to delete +Bp. W. in death from all their devices and never gaze on his countenance again. 

Well, I know that his final place must be kept secret, and I understand that. I also know that there is a special request from one of the bishop's secretary to not take any photos of the burial and not to publish them. But, the Telegram channels linked to the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Brazil have published photos of the place where Bishop Williamson's remains were buried. With this photo it is very possible that enemies can locate and vilify his body.

 

 
 

Think of it this way. To the degree his haters may discover and vilify his body, to that degree God may glorify his body at the Final Judgment. And they’ll have to watch it!