Capilla ardiente

[poli]

I think is means funeral chapel. Can it also mean velorio?
Is capilla ardiente a common term?

[JPablo]

Yes, you are right on both counts.

capilla ardiente = funeral chapel, chapel of rest

It is common.

Velorio = wake in the sense 13. a watch or vigil by the body of a dead person before burial, sometimes accompanied by feasting or merrymaking.
Commonly "velatorio" too. (Velatorio can be the action and the place where it is done.)

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@Poli: "Capilla ardiente" and "velatorio" are synonyms in Mexico as funeral chapel. They're the buildings where people hold that vigil Pablo mentioned, beside a dead person before they're buried, which we call "velorio" (the verb is "velar").
During the "velorio" people pray and give their condolences to the family of the deceased person.
These words come from "vela", which in this context, means to be awake the whole night.


- ¿Dónde velaron a tu abuelo? (Where did you hold the vigil for your grandfather?)
- En un velatorio. No habría cabido tanta gente en la casa. (At a funeral chapel. The house didn't have room enough for so many people.)
- Entonces fueron muchas personas al velorio. (There were many people at the vigil then.)

[aleCcowaN]

Aquí en la Argentina velatorio es "wake" y también los locales que se rentan para realizar la "wake", que sé que en España se denominan "tanatorios" y en otros países "funerarias". La capilla ardiente aquí es el velatorio del difunto en la iglesia, o dentro de los velatorios, la pequeña capilla iluminada por velas y con signos sacros donde se encuentra el difunto, y en la que eventualmente un sacerdote oficiará una ceremonia provisional previa al sepelio.

[JPablo]

Parece que las tradiciones funerarias se han conservado de forma muy similar en los países de habla hispana... (or otherwise...)

Y cómo decía mi abuela: "el muerto al hoyo y el vivo al bollo". (Lo que también creo que indica que en los velatorios también se come o se comía en abundancia.) ;)

(Y como escribía Juan Ramón Jiménez: "Y yo me iré, y los pájaros se quedarán cantando...")

[aleCcowaN]

Pero yo elegí para mí el funeral vikingo de "El último remake de Beau Geste"

(go to 01:51)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grd9CDvVHaU

[CrOtALiTo]

I agree with Funeral is more appropriate for the event.

As Angelica said before in the vigil you must to be awake the whole night then, also you could say Duelo.

For example if you go to a vigil at least in my island could be considered as Duelo for the recently loss of a person in the same day or for the recently diseased of the person love for one or more people.

Vigil
Funeral.
Velorio.
Duelo.
Wake

They are expression quite understanding in several countries, then I'm quite sure in other countries there're more expression about it.

Sincerely yours.

[ROBINDESBOIS]

For capilla ardiente there is an expression in English, I forgot now, If I come think of it, I'll let you know. It's sth like her?his body was .....etc... and that is the equivalent.

[JPablo]

Mmmmh...
Are you talking about "misa de corpore insepulto" or "misa de cuerpo presente" (which in English I believe it's just "funeral mass")?

[ROBINDESBOIS]

THIS IS What I meant, I saw it in a magazine:
INSTALLAR LA CAPILLA ARDIENTE

Her body was taken to court /congress/ theater /where it has been laid in state.

The expresion in red means capilla ardiente in Spanish.

[JPablo]

Ah, that's right! "to lie in state" = "yacer en capilla ardiente"