Epitaphios
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Epitaphios may refer to:
- Funeral oration (ancient Greece)Funeral oration (ancient Greece)A funeral oration or epitaphios logos is a formal speech delivered on the ceremonial occasion of a funeral. Funerary customs comprise the practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour...
or epitaphios logos - Epitaphios (liturgical)Epitaphios (liturgical)The Epitaphios is an icon, today most often found as a large cloth, embroidered and often richly adorned, which is used during the services of Great Friday and Great Saturday in the Eastern Orthodox Churches and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow...
or epitaphion, a cloth icon used during Holy Week in churches that follow the Byzantine rite