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Merry Cemetery and its church Merry Cemetery (video) The workshop at Stan Ioan Pătraș's house where the tombstones of Merry Cemetery were created. The Merry Cemetery (Romanian: Cimitirul Vesel pronounced [tʃimiˈtirul ˈvesel], Hungarian: Vidám temető) is a cemetery in the village of Săpânța, Maramureș County, Romania.
An epitaph (from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios) 'a funeral oration'; from ἐπι-(epi-) 'at, over' and τάφος (táphos) 'tomb') [1] [2] is a short text honoring a deceased person. Strictly speaking, it refers to text that is inscribed on a tombstone or plaque, but it may also be used in a figurative sense.
Epitaph marking the burial spot of Jonathan Swift in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Swift's Epitaph is a translation by Irish poet William Butler Yeats of Jonathan Swift's epitaph, which Swift wrote for himself in Latin. Yeats' somewhat free translation appeared in his 1933 collection The Winding Stair and Other Poems. [1]
Headstone. Scottish gravestones; Cenotaph (empty tomb) Mortuary house. Mausoleum; Catacombs; Pyramid; Pillar tomb; Heroon, herõon or heroum; Sarcophagus (ornate types, otherwise being any stone-built receptacle) Recumbent effigy; Rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel; Stone ship; Church monuments. English church monuments; Ledger stone; Monumental ...
The Epitaphios (Greek: Ἐπιτάφιος, epitáphios, or Ἐπιτάφιον, epitáphion, meaning "upon the tomb"; Slavonic: Плащаница, plashchanitsa; Arabic: نعش, naash) is a Christian religious icon, typically consisting of a large, embroidered and often richly adorned cloth, bearing an image of the dead body of Christ, often accompanied by his mother and other figures ...
Christian inscription on a deacon's tombstone from present-day Austria, dated to the year 533 by the use of consular notation. The earliest of these epitaphs are characterized by their brevity, only the name of the dead being given. Later a short acclamation was added, such as "in God" or "in Peace."
A funeral oration or epitaphios logos (Ancient Greek: ἐπιτάφιος λόγος) is a formal speech delivered on the ceremonial occasion of a funeral.Funerary customs comprise the practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
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