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The catafalque is now on display in the Capitol Visitors Center for the general public to see when not in use.
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The tomb meant for Washington stored the catafalque which is used to support coffins lying in state or honor in the Capitol.
The epitaphios is placed on a beautifully ornate and decorate catafalque or bier before the Lamentations representing the tomb of Christ.
The Anglican Chapel dominates the western section of the cemetery, being raised on a terrace beneath which is an extensive catacomb ; there is a hydraulic catafalque for lowering coffins into the catacomb.
A catafalque is a raised bier, soapbox, or similar platform, often movable, that is used to support the casket, coffin, or body of the deceased during a funeral or memorial service.
When not in use, the catafalque is kept on display in the Exhibition Hall at the United States Capitol Visitor Center.
The coffin is placed on a catafalque and is guarded, around the clock, by detachments each of four men from the following units:
The coffin or casket is usually placed on a catafalque, usually the Lincoln catafalque, so named as it was constructed upon the death of Abraham Lincoln, from when he lay in state following his assassination in 1865.
Castrum doloris ( Latin for Castle of grief ) is a name for the structure and decorations sheltering or accompanying the catafalque or bier that signify the prestige or high estate of the deceased.
This chanting is done as all stand holding candles around a catafalque over which has been placed the Epitaphion ( a shroud embroidered with the figure of Christ laid out for burial ).
The name is in allusion to the many candles which are lighted round the catafalque.
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( May the catafalque now in use for pontifical funeral rites be substituted by a humble and decorous contrivance.
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After he died in 1847, his remains were laid in state on a great catafalque in the Pro-Cathedral.
Lincoln's catafalque was most recently used on July 1, 2010 when Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia lay in repose on the floor of the Senate.
The deceased's embalmed body, dressed in a black suit, white shirt and a tie, would be displayed in an open coffin on a catafalque banked with carnations, red roses and tulips, facing the long queue of mourners.
The deceased's embalmed body, dressed in a black suit, white shirt and a tie, would be displayed in an open coffin on a catafalque banked with carnations, red roses and tulips, facing the long queue of mourners.
His body was laid on a sloped olive-sheeted catafalque and his head propped on a stack of three gold pillows.
On 4 April, the body of Pope John Paul II was moved onto a red velvet catafalque, with his head propped on three red pillows.
The procession ended with the seating of the College of Cardinals and the placement of the bier carrying the body of John Paul on a catafalque in front of the steps leading to the altar of St. Peter's Basilica.
The casket was placed under the rotunda, where it lay in state on Abraham Lincoln's catafalque.
Taut's final work one month before his death was the catafalque used for the official state funeral of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on 21 November 1938 in Ankara.
Sigismund III on catafalque displayed in the Guard Chamber at the Royal Castle, Warsaw | Royal Castle in Warsaw.
catafalque and Capitol
The Lincoln catafalque in the United States Capitol
In the United States, the Lincoln catafalque, first used for Abraham Lincoln's funeral in 1865, has been used for all those who have lain in state in the Capitol Rotunda since Lincoln's death.
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Lloyd George proposed a catafalque, a low empty platform, but it was Lutyens ' idea for the taller monument.
The most notable Italian catafalque was the one designed for Michelangelo by his fellow artists in 1564.
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Members of the household cavalry and other branches of the armed forces stood guard at the four corners of the catafalque.
The catafalque, designed by Maximilian Colt, placed over her grave was destroyed during the civil war.
For the occasion the chancel of the Abbey was draped in black from floor to ceiling and a funeral effigy of the earl dressed in scarlet breeches, a military buff-coat and Parliamentary robes was erected beneath a catafalque designed by Inigo Jones.
On his death, a catafalque was built in Rome to commemorate his life.
It still has a working coffin-lift or catafalque, restored by the Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery in 1997.
On the death of King Edward VII in 1910, the young Viscount Gort was a Lieutenant in command of the Grenadier NCOs detailed to bear the coffin and attend the catafalque.
The clergy absented themselves in obedience to the archbishop's orders, but mass was sung by the Abbé Grieu assisted by two clerics, the catafalque being decorated with the episcopal insignia.
Following a Roman Catholic Requiem Mass, a catafalque may be used to stand in place of the body at the Absolution of the dead.
In 1665, he designed a catafalque commemorating the death of Philip IV of Spain.
The three pylons would in turn circumscribe a drum-like two-story structure containing a gallery from which visitors could look down at Quezon's catafalque, modeled after Napoleon Bonaparte's in the Invalides.
The gallery and the catafalque below are lit by an oculus, in turn reminiscent of Grant's Tomb.
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`` Amen '', said the Reverend Doran, grabbing his rifle propped up against a tombstone, `` and now my brethren, it would seem that our presence is required elsewhere ''.
As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.
The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.
Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.
A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.
For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.
Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.
Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
Lacking the pioneer spirit necessary to write of a new economy, these writers seem to be contenting themselves with an old one that is now as defunct as Confederate money.
It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.
It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in.
One can only speak of what is in front of him, and that now is simply the mess ''.
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now ''.
America is now joining Europe in this `` mature '' phase of development.
The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.
that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.
Who will say that our country is even now a homogeneous community??
The supreme object of their lives is now fulfilled, says the wife, her husband has achieved immortality.
What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.
Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.
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