Resurrection

A resurrection is the rising from the dead of a divine or human being who still retains his own personhood, or individuality, though the body may or may not be changed. The belief in the resurrection of the body is usually associated with Christianity, because of the doctrine of the Resurrection of Christ, but it also is associated with later Judaism, which provided basic ideas that were expanded in Christianity and Islam.

In the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series, Empath went through a death and resurrection experience when he died swimming across the Pool Of Souls on Redemption Day, only to come back to life some time later to the amazement of his fellow Smurfs. During their time-traveling adventures in The Lost Year, the Smurfs themselves witnessed the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the day that Mary Magdalene and a few other human witnesses saw that His tomb was empty.