Hi, Kris —

From what I found on the net, "Q.M.P." appears in Italian funerary inscriptions; it's:

"Questa Memoria Pose": "may his/her memory remain".

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/QMP

— RC

Kris —

Questa = This

Memoria = memory

Pose = can or may

So it's more like "May this memory"

Which sounds like it's abbreviated idiom. They do that in Italian some times. They'll say a couple words from a commonly used sentence and every one gets it.

So the idiom probably means something similar to what Richard said.

John

Hi, Kris —

The Byzantines have an expression, "May [his/her] memory be eternal", customarily sung at memorial services and used to greet the bereaved.

Perhaps that's what it means.

Eric