To stay awake or pass the night in prayer; to stay up during the night as an exercise of devotion; to keep vigil (in church, by a corpse, etc.).

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Speaker: Wake them here at home. Two nights and then the funeral the next day. Sitting down there for mass and- and bury them over at the cemetery. Interviewer: What do you mean wake- wake them? Soeaker: Wake them here, an open casket, you-know? People come here, you-know, and-	To stay awake or pass the night in prayer; to stay up during the night as an exercise of devotion; to keep vigil (in church, by a corpse, etc.).

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He says, "We'll have- there's nothing to hinder us of taking him up to his own house, to wake from there." She says- they didn't need her fo-- for she says, "I don't want the box opened. And I know the terrible shape he'll be in."	To stay awake or pass the night in prayer; to stay up during the night as an exercise of devotion; to keep vigil (in church, by a corpse, etc.).

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So whenever- he was waked at home, which was not very good either for the thirteen year old.	To stay awake or pass the night in prayer; to stay up during the night as an exercise of devotion; to keep vigil (in church, by a corpse, etc.).
Yes they had the- he was waked in the house. And that was a bad memory.	To stay awake or pass the night in prayer; to stay up during the night as an exercise of devotion; to keep vigil (in church, by a corpse, etc.).

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Yeah, the wake- yeah there was no- you didn't take someone to their- to a funeral home then, you waked them here.	To stay awake or pass the night in prayer; to stay up during the night as an exercise of devotion; to keep vigil (in church, by a corpse, etc.).