(n.) A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Xavier Niel, one of France’s wealthiest people and a known “cataphile” (those who illegally explore Paris’s catacombs and underground quarries), is said to have built a flight of steps that goes directly from his house down to Paris’s undergrounds.
(2) If postnatal wards are filled with hope for the future, psych wards are catacombs, filled with the death of hope.
(3) You are here in the Kingdom of Death,” warns the macabre inscription at the entrance to Les Catacombes de Paris – the underground boneyard filled with the remains of 6 million Parisians, which attracts half a million living and breathing visitors each year.
(4) Part of the inspiration for the piece had come, he explained, when he was trying to visit the catacombs of the Capuchin monks in Palermo.
(5) He drew a parallel with the church of the persecuted early Christians who preserved their orthodoxy in the catacombs.
(6) It is part of a religious complex containing another ancient church (S Agnese, early 7th century and also with beautiful mosaics) and catacombs.
(7) Further, the quiet, understated scenes between John Clare and Vanessa in the catacombs of the cholera ward allow themes to blossom that few other shows would dare cultivate: God, salvation, theodicy, our responsibility to one another, those truly universal hopes of being accepted and being loved.
(8) Next to the catacombs, a former toll house known as the Barrière d’Enfer (“Gate of Hell”) hosts the Inspection Générale des Carrières (IGC), an office created in 1777 by King Louis XVI to oversee the mapping and maintenance of the 32 sq km of abandoned quarries below the surface of the French capital – an underground space 10 times the size of New York’s Central Park.
Sepulchre
Definition:
(n.) The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.
(v. t.) To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Holy Sepulchre is the most sacred monument of Christianity.
(2) Perhaps it was a sort of optical illusion of "the kingdom of heaven", the post-apocalypse New Jerusalem described in the Book of Revelation as well as an approximation of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, according to travellers' accounts .
(3) The World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced on Tuesday that the gift from Mica Ertegun, the widow of Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, would allow work to begin in earnest on the conservation project inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s old city.
(4) In 2003, after being awarded the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem: Knight Commander with star, and serving as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, he was promoted by John Paul II, becoming only the third resident Scottish cardinal since the Reformation.
(5) It’s really horrible.” Such is the damage from a sepulchral few years at Bloomfield Road.
(6) Patriarch Theophilos III told Maariv: "If nothing changes we intend to announce within a few days, for the first time in centuries, that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is closed."
(7) Critics were less kind about Sepulchre , which she now says was rushed.
(8) Christian pilgrims en route to Via Dolorosa and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the site of Jesus's crucifixion, mingle with Muslims heading to the sacred Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque, and Jews intent on praying at the revered Western Wall, the last surviving remnant of the Second Temple.
(9) Explaining the reasons for London’s sepulchral quiet, Netherton tells Flynne that a lot of apocalyptic dominoes fell, but it began, of course, with the climate: “People in the past, clueless as to how that worked, had fucked it all up, then not been able to get it together to do anything about it, even after they knew, and now it was too late.” This is not futurology as satire, any more than a long-range weather forecast is satire.
(10) He ensured the Church of the Holy Sepulchre remained a Christian place of worship.
(11) The moment you set eyes on them, you know that these beautiful people will die, that they are already dead and gone, and yet they live in the here and now of this moment, brief and bright as fireflies beneath the sepulchral gloom.
(12) is a much sunnier picture, and more purely comedic than its sepulchral predecessor,” he said.
(13) The Church of the Holy Sepulchre covers the assumed site of Jesus’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection.
(14) One of the most venerated sites in the Christian faith, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Jesus is believed to have been crucified, buried and resurrected, is facing a financial crisis over an unpaid water bill in a row that could result in its closure.
(15) Jesus denounced his Pharisaic enemies as whited sepulchres, or shining tombs; and that is what the steam-cleaned marble frontage of St Paul's will become if the protesters are evicted to make room for empty pomp: a whited sepulchre, where morality and truth count for nothing against the convenience of the heritage industry.
(16) Maurice, meanwhile, is terrified of mouldering in respectable suburbia, dragging some poor virgin into the sepulchre with him.
(17) Today's saccharine sanctimony will try to whiten the sepulchre of yet another Pope whose obscurantist faith has caused pointless suffering; it is no defence that he was only obeying higher orders.
(18) In the sepulchral hush, you can hear the cheers from over on Centre.
(19) It speaks quite meaningfully to what it might mean to perform this play in an election year.” Intriguingly, King John will also be taken to candlelit churches which have strong ties to that time – Temple church in London , where several of the play’s key characters are buried, and the Holy Sepulchre in Northampton , a church frequently visited by King John and his court.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Christians pray at Christ’s tomb as experts begin renovation in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre.