bugia

Definitions

A liturgical candlestick held beside a Latin Catholic bishop or other prelate.

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Examples

“The Bishop having given his blessing to the Subdeacon, reads the Epistle, Gradual, Alleluia, Prose, and Gospel, after having said with joined hands the Munda cor meum, &c., and Dominus vobiscum: the book is supported by the Clerk, and the bugia held as usual.”

“Additionally, since the seminarians had to serve⟳ at Masses at various times for monsignors or bishops in the different seminary crypt chapels, they had to learn⟳ how to be a bugia-bearer.”

“So, anyway, seeing the procession of young women with lighted phones in a darkened stairwell reminded me of all those bugia bearers bearing bugias. I hope⟳ they in that stairwell were and are as attentive to eternal truths as were those earliest prelates who prayed by the light⟳ from the bugia-borne candle.”

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