"This mountain has been believed to be the most suitable place for the eternal repose," said Ryusho Soeda, chief priest at Rengejo-in, a temple here.
Such compositions, developed in western Europe in late medieval, Renaissance, and early moderns times, may represent the deceased in a state of "eternal repose", hands folded in prayer and awaiting resurrection.
Horace Greeley, the newspaper publisher, also lies there in eternal repose.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, Aquino's defense minister and later fierce critic, asked the public to pray for her eternal repose.
We'll get a bomb clapped onto that vault and give Mr. Lazarus his eternal repose.
Something in the eternal repose of the uplifted cathedral, blue and noble against the sky, was reflected in her, something of the fatality.
His ancestor says that Miravan will not enjoy eternal repose as he has disturbed one of his progenitors.
He was dry and cool and calm, as if deep within him lay the essence of death, eternal repose.
The people responsible for this inhuman act of preventing a dead Filipino citizen from coming home to find his eternal repose in his own native soil will have to answer to their maker.
According to this theory God never leaves the eternal repose in which His blessedness consists.