Christianity and death

Halloween is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It is at the beginning of the observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the Christian liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed. In popular culture, Halloween has become a celebration of horror and is associated with the macabre and the supernatural.

thumb|upright=0.9|right|Image of a fiery purgatory by Ludovico Carracci. Top: Christ directing, with Mary and interceding saints. Middle: Angel showing a soul the intercessors. Bottom: souls being purged with various attitudes.

feast day in some Christian denominations

church in Jerusalem, containing the two holiest sites in Christianity

The Shroud of Turin, also known as the Holy Shroud, is a length of linen cloth that bears a faint image of the front and back of a naked man. Because details of the image are consistent with traditional depictions of Jesus of Nazareth after his death by crucifixion, the shroud has been venerated by Christians for centuries, especially by members of the Catholic Church, as Jesus's shroud upon which his image was miraculously imprinted. The human image on the shroud can be discerned more clearly in a black-and-white photographic negative than in its natural sepia colour, an effect discovered in 1898 by Secondo Pia, who produced the first photographs of the shroud. This negative image is associated with a popular Catholic devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus.

thumb|Visigoths|Visigothic crypt of Saint Antoninus [[Palencia Cathedral in Spain]] thumb|A crypt in Wola Gułowska in [[Lublin Province, Poland]] A crypt () is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church, above ground within a cemetery’s mausoleum or a free-standing outdoor memorial tomb. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi, or religious relics and sometimes cremation urns.

thumb|Requiem for Cirilo Almario|Bishop Cirilo Almario, in the [[Mass of Paul VI at Minor Basilica and Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Malolos, Bulacan, 2016]] thumb|The Requiem, in the Tridentine Mass, celebrated annually for [[Louis XVI and victims of the French Revolution, in the crypt of Strasbourg Cathedral, 2013]] thumb|270px|Requiem Mass for Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria at St. Catherine's Cathedral, [[St. Petersburg, published in a Russian newspaper, 1914]]

artistic motif on the universality of death

posthumous ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus

In Christianity, the period of time between Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection, during which he saved souls held captive in the underworld

vigil held over the dead before burial

Mexican cult image, female deity, and folk saint

event in the New Testament

Koliva, also spelled, depending on the language, kollyva, kollyba, kolyvo, or colivă, is a dish based on boiled wheat that is used liturgically in the Eastern Orthodox Church for commemorations of the dead.

both 'baptism' and 'footwashing' are forms of ablution

service for the deceased in the Eastern Orthodox Church

Viaticum is a term used – especially in the Catholic Church – for the Eucharist (also called Holy Communion), administered, with or without Anointing of the Sick (also called Extreme Unction), to a person who is dying; viaticum is thus a part of the Last Rites.

thumb|The churchyard of Straßwalchen, [[Austria]] In Christian countries, a churchyard is a patch of land adjoining or surrounding a church, which is usually owned by the relevant church or local parish itself. In the Scots language and in both Scottish English and Ulster Scots, this can also be known as a kirkyard.

structural underground tomb

Introit, Western Christian prayer for the dead

in Christian eschatology, Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell, the four last stages of the soul in life and the afterlife, often commended as a collective topic for pious meditation

thumb|Pallbearers carrying the casket of Major Douglas A. Zembiec of the [[United States Marine Corps]] A pallbearer is one of several participants who help carry the casket at a funeral. They may wear white gloves in order to prevent damaging the casket and to show respect to the deceased person.

all the dead who have ever lived will be resurrected

Totensonntag (, Sunday of the Dead), also called Ewigkeitssonntag (Eternity Sunday) or Totenfest, is a Protestant religious holiday in Germany and Switzerland, commemorating the faithful departed. It falls on the last Sunday of the liturgical year in the Protestant Church in Germany and the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.

architectural name for small stone tower found chiefly in the centre and west of France

decorative material for funerals

Maximón () is a Maya deity and folk saint, represented in various forms by the Maya peoples of several towns in the Guatemalan Highlands. Oral tradition of his creation and purpose in these communities is complex, diverse, and born of the ancient Maya traditions centuries ago.

Eastern Orthodox exclamation at funerals

prayer cycle

candle lit in memory of the dead

prayer for or a declaration of absolution of a dead person's sins that takes place at the person's religious funeral

baptism administered to a person in imminent danger of death

religious cake to commemorate the dead

cross erected to commemorate a person or event, sometimes as a grave marker

thumb The Kollyvades () were the members of a movement within the Eastern Orthodox Church that began in the second half of the eighteenth century among the monastic community of Mount Athos, which was concerned with the restoration of traditional practices and opposition to unwarranted innovations, and which turned unexpectedly into a movement of spiritual regeneration. As Metropolitan Kallistos Ware succinctly points out:

cloth which covers a casket or coffin during the funeral, often of rich materials

Day for commemoration of the dead

service of the Church that accompanies a deceased person and his entourage

Dryhthelm (fl. c. 700), also known as Drithelm or Drythelm, was a monk associated with the monastery of Melrose known from the Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum of Bede. According to the latter, before entering the religious life he lived with his family in "a district of Northumbria which is called Incuneningum". Incuneningum is thought by some modern scholars to refer to Cunninghame, now part of Ayrshire.

Christian theological perspectives on suicide

medieval document to commemorate prominent persons

chapel or room

Funeral in Christian traditions