Sentence examples for vigil day from inspiring English sources

While Maradona remained in intensive care, thousands kept vigil day and night in the surrounding streets and candlelit prayers were said from Naples to Bangladesh.

In Wenceslas Square, the seat of the revolution, 300,000 people once kept vigil day and night in 1989 to bring down the Communists - not one person was hurt, and they got a revolution!

As the mass protests in downtown Kiev entered the 26th day, opposition leader Arseny Yatsenyuk appealed to at least 20,000 people in Independence Square to continue their anti-government vigil day and night.

Hundreds gathered for a vigil Sunday evening and again for a funeral Wednesday in Antioch.

More than 2,000 mourners attended a candlelight vigil Thursday in Stewart's honor.

At a prayer vigil Tuesday afternoon, a pastor, Jeremiah Hale, called for prayers for the family.

More than 500 people attended a candlelight vigil Friday night at Woodman Field in Montclair.

There was a candlelight vigil Tuesday night, and the formal program began Wednesday at 6 a.m. with a cleansing ritual on Vilakazi Street, where Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu lived.

The group was organized by left-wing and pro-Palestinian groups, following a separate vigil Friday by Christian, Jewish, Muslim, interfaith and neighborhood organizations.

"A teen-age cashier in my supermarket asked me before I checked out whether I'd be at the vigil Sunday night," she said.

Several religious leaders plan to hold a candlelight vigil Wednesday at 5 30 p.m. on the steps of the Judson church, hoping to enlist other religious institutions to help.