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An ofrenda (Spanish: "offering") is the offering placed in a home altar during the annual and traditionally Mexican Día de los Muertos celebration. An ofrenda, which may be quite large and elaborate, is usually created by the family members of a person who has died and is intended to welcome the deceased to the altar setting.
A memorial service (Greek: μνημόσυνον, mnemósynon, "memorial"; [1] Slavonic: панихида, panikhída, from Greek παννυχίς, pannychis, "vigil" (etymologically "all-nighter"); [2] [3] Romanian: parastas and Serbian парастос, parastos, from Greek παράστασις, parástasis) [4] is a liturgical solemn service for the repose of the departed in the Eastern ...
Historian Elsa Malvido, researcher for the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH, or National Institute of Anthropology and History) and founder of the institute's Taller de Estudios sobre la Muerte (Workshop of Studies on Death), was the first to do so in the context of her wider research into Mexican attitudes to death ...
Day of the Dead is a Mexican tradition that honors the souls of loved ones, remembering them and enticing them back to celebrate the joys of life.
A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
In memoriam, a 1902 photograph by Edward Steichen; In Memoriam, a 1977 Spanish film "In Memoriam A.H.H." or "In Memoriam", an 1850 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam, 2003
Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday of November every year to honour Britain’s war dead.. In 2023, it follows neatly one day after Armistice Day on Saturday 11 November, which ...
Khrushchev's death was announced only hours before he was buried without full state honors, [6] while Malenkov's death was publicly announced more than 2 weeks after he died. [7] This custom changed in 1968 when a national day of mourning was declared for Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space.