rest in peace

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Rest in Peace (disambiguation) .

Grave cross with the Christ monogram IHS and the inscription Requiescant in pace. Amen (1720)

Rest in peace (lat. Requiescat in pace , abbreviated RIP) is a frequently used epitaph .

use

Late antique Christian epitaph from Rome with the incipit Hic requiescit in pace (“Here rests in peace”), 6th century.

Death Card (1894)

The origin of the epitaph is usually given in Ps 4.9  EU in the translation of the Vulgate "in pace in id ipsum dormiam et requiescam".

According to an exchange of letters between Jacob Spon and Father La Chaise in 1680, the use of the phrase requiescat in pace as a Christian epitaph can be traced back to the 7th and 8th centuries. Trace back to the century. According to Spon, the Christians previously used funerary inscriptions such as obiit in pace (“died in peace”), abiit in somnum pacis (“went to sleep in peace”), depositus est in pace (“was buried in peace”), quiescit in pace (" Rests in peace") or acceptus est apud Deum ("was accepted by God") together with the indication of the date of death.

In the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church , the line of verse is used in prayer for the dead:

℣: Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine:

℟: et lux perpetua luceat ice cream.

℣: Requiescant in pace.

℟: Amen.

℣: Lord, give them eternal rest.

℟: And the eternal light shine for them.

℣: Let them rest in peace.

℟: Amen.

The Latin idiom or the abbreviation RIP is often found on the front or back of death pictures .

In Italian and English-speaking countries, the abbreviation RIP is also translated into Italian Riposa in pace or English Rest in peace (“rest in peace”).

literature

• Sebastian Scholz: Remembrance of the dead in medieval grave inscriptions from the 5th to the 15th century . In: Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft , Vol. 26 (1999), pp. 37–59.

See also

• Hic situs est

Web links

Commons : Requiescat in pace  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: requiescat in pace  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Latin text of the Vulgate on the Internet.
2. ^ Excerpts in English in: Antiquity of the Religion of Protestants. In: Robert Jefferson Breckinridge , Andrew Boyd Cross (eds.): The Baltimore Literary and Religious Magazine , Volume 3 (1837), pp. 201-208 ( here: p. 206 in the Google book search).