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The epitaphios is placed on a beautifully ornate and decorate catafalque or bier before the Lamentations representing the tomb of Christ.
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Later, during the Troparion, the clergy carry the epitaphios ( a cloth icon symbolizing the winding sheet in which Jesus was prepared for burial ) into the center of the church, where it is venerated by all the faithful.
At the end of the Great Doxology the epitaphios is carried in procession around the outside of the church, and then is brought back in.
The Gospel () is not read at its normal place during Matins, but instead is read at the end of the service, in front of the epitaphios.
During this service the Canon of Great Saturday is repeated, at the end of which the priest and deacon take the epitaphios into the sanctuary through the Holy Doors and lay it on the Holy Table ( altar ), where it will remain until the feast of the Ascension.
Near the end of the service an epitaphios or " winding sheet " ( a cloth embroidered with the image of Christ prepared for burial ) is carried in procession to a low table in the nave which represents the Tomb of Christ ; it is often decorated with an abundance of flowers.
The epitaphios itself represents the body of Jesus wrapped in a burial shroud, and is a roughly full-size cloth icon of the body of Christ.
At the end of the Great Doxology, while the Trisagion is sung, the epitaphios is taken in procession around the outside the church, and is then returned to the tomb.
In some churches, the epitaphios is never left alone, but is accompanied 24 hours a day by a reader chanting from the Psalter.
A remarkable piece adorning the monastery is the epitaphios by Anna Roth, made of silk and gold on a cotton base.
## The epitaphios ( shroud ) depicting the dead body of Christ is solemnly venerated for a last time and then ceremoniously taken into the altar and laid on the Holy Table towards the end of the canon.
epitaphios and on
From this moment on, there will be no more prostrations made in the church ( aside from those made before the epitaphios ) until Vespers on the afternoon of Pentecost.
epitaphios and Lamentations
* Great and Holy Saturday Orthros — Lamentations are chanted around the epitaphios, interspersed between the verses of Psalm 118.
* Great and Holy Saturday Orthros — Lamentations are chanted around the epitaphios, interspersed between the verses of Psalm 118.
epitaphios and tomb
The epitaphios will lay in the tomb until the Paschal Service early Sunday morning.
epitaphios and Christ
Some churches observe the practice of holding the epitaphios at the door, above waist level, so the faithful most bow down under it as they come back into the church, symbolizing their entering into the death and resurrection of Christ.
Especially in Germany, Christ's eyes are usually open and look out at the viewer ; in Italy the closed eyes of the Byzantine epitaphios image, originally intended to show a dead Christ, remained for longer.
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The service takes place with the clergy and people gathered around the epitaphios in the center of the church.
As the clergy carrying the epitaphios enter back into the church, they raise the epitaphios at the door, so that all may pass under it as they enter in, symbolically entering into the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Many parts of the liturgy which are normally chanted in front of the Holy Doors are instead done in front of the epitaphios.
Then the priest may deliver a homily and everyone comes forward to venerate the epitaphios.
In 1856 a considerable portion of a logos epitaphios, a Funeral Oration over Leosthenes and his comrades who had fallen in the Lamian war was discovered.
The image developed from the Byzantine epitaphios image, which possibly dates back to the 8th century.
Contains some elements of the old cathedral office: procession with epitaphios, reading of three pericopes ( lessons from the Old Testament, epistle and Gospel ) at the end-Great Doxology.
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