This was followed, in 356, by an attempt to arrest Athanasius during a vigil service.

A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.

He tries to have him arrested during a vigil service, but Athanasius flees to the Nitrian desert in Upper Egypt.

They are a remnant of the ancient tradition of the church ( still observed in some places ) whereby the faithful did not leave the church after the service, but were each given a glass of wine, and some bread and dried fruit to give them strength for the vigil ahead.

It is customary on this night for a vigil involving private prayer to take place, beginning after the evening service and continuing until midnight.

On the last night, the pō whakamutunga ( night of ending ), the mourners hold a vigil and at sunrise the coffin is closed, before a church or marae funeral service and / or graveside interment ceremony, invariably Christian.

However, the All-night vigil is usually abridged so as to not last literally " all-night " and may be as short as two hours ; on the other hand, on Athos and in the very traditional monastic institutions, that service followed by the hours and Liturgy may last as long as 18 hours.

* September 14-Three days after the September 11 terrorist attacks, while the rest of the world sees the memorial service for the victims at the Washington National Cathedral, Canadians see the similar service on Parliament Hill — the largest single vigil ever seen in the nation's capital.

During August 2007, Iraq Veterans Against the War, an activist organization of former and current service members, announced a national " Stop the Stop-Loss " campaign at a press conference where they were holding a week-long vigil in a tower erected on the National Mall in Washington, D. C. Other anti-Stop-Loss vigils have occurred in Bellingham, Washington, and Colorado Springs, Colorado.

In popular culture and for most believers, the Pascal vigil is the service that commences at midnight ; however, since the vigil proper commences with vespers Saturday afternoon, that less well-known service is explained first.

It is during this service that catechumens are baptized and that fact, together with the lengthy Old Testament readings, shows that this service is analogous to the Easter vigil described in the previous sections, obviously representing development from a common tradition.

In the Indian Orthodox Church the vigil begins in the evening after the service on Good Friday.

It is also thought to be a cognate of the Latin verb servo ( original meaning: to preserve whole ) and of the Avestan verb haurvaiti ( to keep vigil over ), although the original Proto-Indoeuropean root is unclear.

Bobby is fiercely protective of those he considers friends, going as far as to threaten to kill his teammate Northstar for leaving Angel in a potentially dangerous situation, keeping constant vigil by Cannonball's bedside while Sam recovered from his injury from Sinister, and engaging in physical confrontation with Cyclops for questioning Rogue's judgment as a team leader.

* A mass candle vigil is held in Tehran, Iran to mourn the loss of life in the United States.

This vigil is occasionally renewed at dawn, continuing until the Good Friday liturgy.

The central ritual at cenotaphs throughout the Commonwealth is a stylized night vigil.

A section of the novel, called " Tom ’ s Story " is a partial transcript of documentary evidence and radio communication with the outside world during his vigil within the labyrinth, which he spends alone with his radio, waiting for Will.

Each year a small papal tiara is placed on the head of the famous bronze statue of Saint Peter in St. Peter's Basilica from the vigil of the Feast of the Cathedra of Saint Peter on 22 February until the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul on 29 June.

( Sergei Rachmaninoff's " Vespers " is really a setting of the Eastern Orthodox all-night vigil.

For example, in the Russian tradition, the " all-night vigil " is served in every church on Saturday nights and the eves of feast days ( all though it may be abridged to be as short as two hours ) while elsewhere, it is usual to have matins on the morning of the feast ; however, in the latter instance, vespers and matins are rather less abridged but the Divine Liturgy commences at the end of matins and the hours are not read, as was the case in the extinct cathedral rite of Constantinople.

* Menologion A collection of the lives of the saints and commentaries on the meaning of feasts for each day of the calendar year, also printed as 12 volumes, appointed to be read at the meal in monasteries and, when there is an all-night vigil for a feast day, between vespers and matins.

At age 60 he is said to have begun a Chilla-nashini, a 40-day-and-night vigil by sitting in a circle which he had drawn for himself.

He invented a legend in which the lady of Smailholm Tower, near Kelso, keeps vigil by the midnight fires three nights in a row ( see above ) and is visited by her lover ; but when her husband returns from battle, she learns he slew that lover on the first night, and she has been entertained by a very physical ghost.

Anne is deeply shaken by the prospect of losing him and realizes that she loved Gilbert all along, in a lonely vigil she calls her " Book of Revelation ".

The period of silence is essentially a ritualized night vigil bracketed by the traditional bugle call " The Last Post "" and " The Rouse ", which is also called " Reveille " in the United States.

The vegetative state is also called a " coma vigil ".

# Arranging the " dream bed "-The suona is played during the vigil.

It is more likely the contemporary Philip the Arab of whom Eusebius ( Historia ecclesiastica, VI, 34 ) reports that a bishop would not let him enter the gathering of Christians at the Easter vigil.

It is learned that the manager died a few hours earlier and his former employees are holding vigil over his corpse, awaiting the coroner.

One psychotherapist counseled viewers at Shawnee Mission East High School in the Kansas City suburbs and 1, 000 others held candles at a peace vigil in Penn Valley Park.

However, Barrymore's great friend Gene Fowler denied the story, stating that he and his son held vigil over the body at the funeral home until the funeral and burial.

During the civil suit brought by the SPLC against the Aryan Nations founder Pastor Richard Butler held in Coeur d ' Alene, Idaho in 2000, Rubin stayed for at least 4 days holding vigil during the proceedings.

A group of peace promoters led by an independent group called Pax had distributed candles to those stopping at their booth during the day, intending them for a candlelight vigil to be held during the Red Hot Chili Peppers ' performance of the song " Under the Bridge ".

Ravished by her beauty, but knowing that his love for her would not be requited, he allegedly held his first mystic vigil in his desire to realize this union.

Following the 7 July 2005 London bombings, StWC in association with CND and the Muslim Association of Britain held a vigil for the victims at the Peace Garden in Euston, London on 9 July 2005 and a further solidarity gathering at Russell Square, close to one of the Underground stations targeted, on 17 July 2005.

They held a vigil for pets lost during the pet food poisoning that occurred that same year.

Since 1990, a vigil attracting tens of thousands of people is held every year on June 4 to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square Crackdown.

A memorial candlelight vigil is held each year at the AIDS Memorial, during Pride Week.

Every winter, there is an annual vigil for the École Polytechnique Massacre, the trees in the park are decorated with Christmas lights, the " Lighting of the Lights " and Snowfest is held in February.

* When a Vietnamese American video tape store owner displayed the current flag of Vietnam and a photo of Ho Chi Minh in front of his store in Westminster, California, in 1999, a month-long protest against it climaxed when 15, 000 people held a candlelight vigil one night, sparking the Hitek Incident ( Hitek was the name of the store ).

These were generally held during the nine nights of vigil and prayers after someone's death, on the first death anniversary when the family members put away their mourning clothes.

In 1922 Toc H was granted a Royal Charter and in 1925 Toc H Australia held the first World Chain of Light – a 24 hour vigil where lamps are lit around the world.

For about two decades, these sex abuse survivors have held vigil every Wednesday in front of embassy of Japan in Seoul and 1000th vigil was held in December 2011.

Emery's supporters held an ongoing daily vigil outside the courthouse until he was released.

While Emery was imprisoned, his supporters held a permanent vigil outside the prison with tents and banners for 45 days, ending when Emery was released on bail.

For several years the vigil, the traditional closing event of the Manchester Pride LBGT celebration weekend, had been held at the city's Castlefield Arena, but because of the siting of the beacon, it was decided that the vigil should be held in the gardens.