Sentence examples for midnight vigil from inspiring English sources

A monk lights candles during a midnight vigil.

At the republic's Parliament, crowds maintained a midnight vigil as rumors spread that tanks were moving at an army post on the outskirts of the city.

Wednesday approaches, culminating in a midnight vigil on Tuesday at the guild's offices near Hollywood, unless an agreement is reached earlier.

The 4,000 students returned to their barracks to prepare for a silent midnight vigil, the Point's traditional rite to mark the death of one of its own.

The image of the female caregiver holding a midnight vigil at the bedside of a sick relative is so firmly rooted in our collective imagination we might assume that such caregiving would have attracted the scrutiny of numerous historians.

This last was undertaken first as a midnight vigil in the Devenish church in Monea, and subsequently as a daytime promenade, inviting listeners to follow the readers and the Carducci String Quartet from church to church, as if auditioning one spiritual space after another for the perfect acoustics in which to absorb the mingled, hypnotic rhythms of Eliot and Beethoven.

Two years ago, congregants attended midnight vigils outside the prison where Connecticut executed a prisoner for the first time in 45 years.

So an election night party seemed as good a moment as any to ask Mr. Bloomberg, 58, if he really wants to spend his 60's standing midnight vigils over the hospital beds of wounded New York police officers.

A private funeral Mass for Frank Sinatra is to be held here at noon on Wednesday, after a Tuesday night vigil service, a family spokeswoman said this weekend.

As the street lamps came on and boats headed out of Lemon Creek for night fishing, Ms. Deppe considered wrapping up the evening vigil.

According to local news site Oakland North, a handful of protesters returned Wednesday to City Hall after a tumultuous night – joined by hundreds more for an evening vigil.