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The Memorial Cross (French: Croix du Souvenir), often known as the Silver Cross for Mothers, is a Canadian decoration awarded to the mother, widow, widower, or next of kin of any member of the Canadian Armed Forces whose life is lost on active service, including peacekeeping, other such international operations and, since 2001, other service-related deaths.
Their use of simplistic, line-drawn imagery was a deliberate rejection of Catholic iconography, a choice also reflected in the design of their churches, portrait paintings and stained glass. [13] However, in a society that largely rejected visual art as idolatry , images created for funeral rites and headstones themselves were among the few ...
The word "funerary" strictly means "of or pertaining to a funeral or burial", [4] but there is a long tradition in English of applying it not only to the practices and artefacts directly associated with funeral rites, but also to a wider range of more permanent memorials to the dead.
The Adams Memorial is a grave marker for Marian Hooper Adams and Henry Adams located in Section E of Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. The memorial features a cast bronze allegorical sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (which he called The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding, but which was often called in the newspapers "Grief").
Former First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday remembered her mother as “a ray of light in the darkest of days” during a funeral service at a church not far from the family’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
A marker set at the head of the grave may be called a headstone. An especially old or elaborate stone slab may be called a funeral stele, stela, or slab. The use of such markers is traditional for Chinese, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic burials, as well as other traditions.
Jill Duggar and her husband, Derick Dillard, honored their stillborn daughter with a touching funeral service. “Isla Marie, our baby girl. We will love you forever & hold you in our hearts until ...
The mother of 11 and founder of RFK Human Rights died at age 96 on Oct. 10 Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton at Ethel Kennedy's memorial ...