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  2. Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela - Wikipedia

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    Humanity, with this loss, is bidding farewell to one of the most distinguished moral leaders and to an icon of resistance and the fight for justice and human dignity. Mandela never knelt in his fight against Apartheid, not even when he was deprived of freedom for 27 years. The long years of suffering neither weakened Mandela, nor killed his spirit.

  3. Death and state funeral of Silvio Berlusconi - Wikipedia

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    On 27 March 2023, Silvio Berlusconi was admitted to San Raffaele Hospital for three days after suffering pains. In April 2023, Berlusconi was hospitalised at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, [4] and was treated in intensive care, after suffering breathing problems, [5] [6] due to severe pneumonia caused by a form of leukaemia. [7]

  4. Funeral sermon - Wikipedia

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    The funeral sermon is a mixed genre. [4] Patrick Collinson used a "cuckoo in the nest" metaphor to describe the Protestant reformer's predicament when funeral sermons were given: classical rhetoric of exemplars was used, while radical evangelicals could not accept the sermon form as suited to the lives of the godly. [5]

  5. John Donne - Wikipedia

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    Even as he lay dying during Lent in 1631, he rose from his sickbed and delivered the Death's Duel sermon, which was later described as his own funeral sermon. Death's Duel portrays life as a steady descent to suffering and death; death becomes merely another process of life, in which the 'winding sheet' of the womb is the same as that of the grave.

  6. Bishop T.D. Jakes underwent emergency surgery after health ...

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    One week after suffering a medical emergency during a sermon, Bishop T.D. Jakes offered an update on his health in a video message to church members. In the message to members of the megachurch ...

  7. Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI - Wikipedia

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    Commentators contrasted it to the more effusive homily that Benedict (then Cardinal Ratzinger) gave at Pope John Paul II's funeral. [ 38 ] [ 37 ] Before this funeral, the first time a pope had assisted at the funeral of his predecessor occurred in 1802, when a solemn ceremony was celebrated in the presence of Pius VII when the remains of Pius ...

  8. State funeral of John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia

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    There was no formal eulogy at the funeral Mass (as this was prohibited by the Catholic Church at the time [123]). [124] [125] However, the Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, the Most Reverend Philip M. Hannan, delivered the sermon where selections from Kennedy's writings and speeches were delivered. [126]

  9. Death and state funeral of Edward VII - Wikipedia

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    The remainder of the funeral party waited outside the Hall, consisting of thousands of people. Big Ben, the bell in the nearby clock tower, was rung 68 times, one for each year of Edward VII's life. This was the first time it was used in this way at a monarch's funeral. [12]