Sentence examples for service of mourning from inspiring English sources

A service of mourning was being planned at Notre Dame.

Popes have prayed here, Babe Ruth lay in state here and last year, less than two weeks after the attacks, the park played host to an interfaith service of mourning.

On Tuesday, a service of national mourning will be held at a 95,000-seater stadium on the outskirts of Johannesburg.

The service capped a week of mourning, one that included the funerals of the three 18-year-old New Jersey men who died in the Boland Hall fire -- Frank Caltabilota of West Long Branch, John Giunta of Vineland and Aaron Karol of Green Brook.

Flags flew at half-staff and schools in Finland held memorial services marking an official day of mourning.

President Bush had proclaimed last Friday a national day of mourning with a service at Washington's National Cathedral, but the mourning had only begun.

As part of the national day of mourning, the Pentagon held memorial services in the auditorium on the fifth floor, still soiled with soot and grime.

Cuba commemorated his death with nine official days of mourning and two mass memorial services.

She is, after all, beyond harm (even by a service so extravagant as to be an exercise not of mourning but of vanity).

The administrators also stated that it was interesting that a hospital with a French-Catholic root had adapted its services for all kinds of cultures and religions: ADM 4: We have a program of mourning.

It became a march of mourning instead.