catafalque

[BarbaraK]

We were driving in Schenectady when the GPS announced to turn on "Catafalque Street"...surprised to see it as a street name , as I was to see it in a book written in English..another word I knew first from Spanish:"catafalque" is a platform for a coffin..part of the Dia de muertos/Day of the dead vocabulary

[Slava]

Interestingly related to scaffold, one used to transport and display the dead, one to create them.

A great word for October, the month of Halloween.

[BarbaraK]

Interestingly related to scaffold, one used to transport and display the dead, one to create them.

A great word for October, the month of Halloween.

thanks..I thought so...
it is interesting that it is related to scaffold

[LukeJavan8]

I grew up in one of the hierarchic churches. And on
November 2 it celebrated the feast of All Souls, which is
very common in Latin (Dios di Muertos?) peoples.
We had a catafalque, displayed in the center aisle with
six candles flanking it, and they were not white but deep
brown in color. It was a framework, which when opened
looked like a casket on a gurney-type stand. It was
then covered with a black pall with white cross stitched
from end to end. The Eucharist was celebrated with
this as a reminder death comes to all.