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His body was transported to a hospital. During the night with secrecy, Franciscan friars took it and placed to rest in their crypt. In the presence of four witnesses they performed a short burial rite. They put him into a simple pine coffin and put that into a grave cavity, which they closed off with a red marble slab with engraving on the inner side. It said: "Passed away on the 6th of October in the year of our Lord 1849. G.B.L. Blessing and peace upon his ashes."
Over twenty years later the city of Pest took the matter of his re-burial in its hand. In the presence of one of Batthyány's son and officials they opened his grave. They found the coffin in tatters, the corpse decayed. The main feature he was recognized was his great reddish-brown beard. The piece of his skull with the bullet hole remained, and as some of the buttons on the suit they dressed him into. Based on these and some other evidence they made a positive identification. The remains were consecrated by the Franciscans again for the transportation and ceremony.