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Tenebrae
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.18|Fifteen candles on Tenebrae hearse - Antoni Gaudí - [[Sagrada Família. The candles are extinguished one by one during the course of the service.]]
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15 sectionsContents
- Catholic Church
- Original form
- Structure of the original Tenebrae
- Table illustrating the contents of the service
- Music
- Roman Rite since 1970
- Other Western Christian Churches
- Lutheran practice
- Anglican practice
- Methodist practice
- Polish National Catholic practice
- Reformed practice
- Western Orthodox practice
- References
- External links
thumb|upright=1.18|Fifteen candles on Tenebrae hearse - Antoni Gaudí - [[Sagrada Família. The candles are extinguished one by one during the course of the service.]]
Tenebrae (—Latin for 'darkness') is a religious service of Western Christianity held during the three days preceding Easter Day, and characterized by a gradual extinguishing of candles, and the strepitus or "loud noise" in the total darkness at the end of the service.