memorial candle
Grief's small light
A memorial candle is a candle lit to honor or remember the dead.
In Jewish tradition, a yahrzeit candle burns for twenty-four hours on the anniversary of a loved one's death.
Memorial candles also appear at vigils, funerals, and sites of tragedy: Mourners placed memorial candles outside the school.
- yahrzeitAnnual death anniversary observance
- vigilPurposeful nighttime wakefulness
- flameBurning gas made visible
- eternal flameContinuously burning memorial light
- wickFuel-drawing cord
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- memorialsmemorials, gravestone, monument, headstone, commemorations
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