The body was deposited upon a catafalque in the Church of the Santissimi Apostoli, where the funeral was celebrated by all the artists and Florentines in Rome.
He had come to his senses; but, although he found the catafalquein its place, he dared not stir for fear it would move again.
For the catafalquehad not only moved, but it began to come straight towards him!
On Saturday the remains were borne to the White House, where they were embalmed and placed on a grand catafalque in the East Room.
Funeral services were held, and for twenty-four hours the catafalque remained in the hall of the House, where thousands of tear-dimmed eyes gazed for the last time upon the familiar face.
A great catafalque was set up in the middle of the dark church; many candles gleamed; and a solemn funeral service began.
The catafalqueupon which the mummy was laid when transported from the mortuary establishment to the tomb, was frequently adorned with a covering made of stuff or soft leather.
The catafalque was hung all over with wreaths, emblems, and banners.
The sailors of the "Belle Poule" protested that the catafalquewas too frail, and the height too great.
And, without consulting either generals or deputies or police, whether in uniform or without, a unanimous impulse made the catafalque deviate from the straight line and it was hurried into the rue de la Paix.
The catafalque lay in state in Ashland over one night.
It was early afternoon when I found myself, with the father, standing at the window of a long room, full of women, watching till the body should be carried to a great catafalque that stood at the door to receive it.
The old buffet in the hall was not like the mahogany catafalque in the other rooms, and the flowers were very fresh and the china of unappreciated antiquity.
Prepare the catafalque in St. Martin's church, and place it before the altar!
Several officers came to meet it, and Captain Ortis, approaching close to the Eletto, said: "The bishop refuses the catafalque and the solemn requiem you requested.
When the academicians decreed a catafalquefor Michelangelo's solemn obsequies in S.
Describing the catafalque erected to his honour in S.
At the head of his catafalque is Suleiman's white turban with double tufts of heron's feathers.
To the east is the great garden, which contains the tuerbeh of Bayezid himself, with a catafalquethirteen feet long.
Upon the catafalque was seen the dead body of a damsel so lovely that by her beauty she made death itself look beautiful.
Nor was this all, for Don Quixote had perceived that the dead body on the catafalque was that of the fair Altisidora.
A great catafalque hung with purple carries on its summit a bed of ebony, surrounded by torches and baskets of silver filigree, in which are contained green lettuces, mallows, and fennel.
Illustration: The Funeral of Yuan Shih-kai: The Catafalque over the Coffin on its way to the Railway Station.
He knelt down upon the cold stones, and remained in that position for some minutes; at last he arose as pale as the deceased Countess herself; he ascended the steps of the catafalque and bent over the corpse.
The coffin was placed upon a rich catafalque beneath a velvet baldachin.
All round the catafalque wreaths of every kind of white blossom were stacked in great heaps; the fragrance of violets outscented all the others.
The crown-prince mounted two steps of thecatafalque and placed his wreath.
She came close, climbed the steps of the catafalque and leant against his arm: "How peaceful his little face is!
Every year after this, on Good Friday, the Manicheans carried out a mourning ceremony known as the Bema around the catafalque of Manes, whose real sufferings they were wont to contrast with the unreal sufferings of Christ.
A catafalque rises in the centre, surrounded with strips of gilded serge, and there is to be seen the famous footprint of Buddha.
It was necessary to send orders at once to the parish church to take away the catafalque and the drapings.
The catafalque was draped in black, surrounded by massive silver candlesticks hung with crape, and lit up with numerous wax candles.
The coffin had been conveyed from London on Tuesday, and was placed on a catafalque within the choir of the chapel, where several sisters of the community (Ursulines of Jesus) watched until the morning.
The coffin was removed, on the previous evening, from Hyde Park Place, and laid on a splendidcatafalque in the church.
